boundaries. He shares thoughts, space, possessions, and personal fluids with his loved one.
This pre-adolescent phase is precisely the stage we have found ourselves in as a developing civilization. Just like the child who, at first, resists the advances of the opposite sex (gross! cooties!) we, too, fear the coming of global intimacy, because it means losing a lot of what we've fought so hard to prove in the past. We don't even like to believe that we, as a civilization, are vulnerable to the same sorts of evolutionary laws that dictate the natural selection of individual biological species. We like to think of evolution as something that promotes the dominance of one individual over another. That a bird with a longer beak can get more food from deep inside a tree trunk is a non-threatening evolutionary presumption. As far
