Food, very important, absolutely essential. Fighting, yes, the wars in the world once started drag on every day, nobody waving the white flag, but fighting means also arguing, faking the truth. Fleeing, yes defined as transportation, travelling around in vehicles, air, road, rail, sea, however the world has become a small place, we fly in big planes up and down the planet. Continuity guaranteed.

Surely, drives such as greed (money) and to create (art) and to kill (crime) ought to be regarded as important forces playing a significant role. All drives, essential or inessential, of human behaviour are interrelated. Each has it’s own importance and significance to make us do what we have to do to avoid extinction. No food no fight no sex.

The theory of the 4 drives is still agreeable, but there’s a remarkable shift of meaning. The concept of fleeing has a totally different meaning today in our current time, 2024. Immigration, people constantly on the move, chancing countries, escaping poverty, wars and social conflicts and oppression by tyranny, dictatorships and despots. We live in a time with overflowing fullness of discourages.

And the meaning of sex, now that the 1966 revolution has dusted down, has it chanced? Will it ever chance? Don’t think so.