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Cold Mountain is in fact a willed pastiche of Stephen Crane--that is, modern prose with occasional attacks of nostalgia.
And yet this ability to reflect on ourselves underlies art, architecture, poetry, government, journalism, and all the other forms of willed culture and communication that animals don't and can't have.
"[T]oo much, even in this benign book, seems willed, unfree, a hysteria that he forces onto his scenes because without it they would not really exist."
Colleoni willed his huge fortune to Venice on the understanding that his monument would be on Piazza San Marco.
Now, Culturebox may well be correct that hungry young males (or hungry old defense attorneys, or jurors of all ages and appetites) are incapable of resisting the temptation of "tout comprendre, tout pardonner ." But if so, then it is hardly a triumph for her preferred "willed culture" over the animal model; rather, it is a subtler, richer application of the evolutionary psychologists' fundamentally wise observation: that social institutions fail unless they treat humans as the instinct-driven creatures they are, and avoid pretending that they are the self-defining logical and aesthetic intellects that Culturebox would like them to be.