grizzly man

the world's cold shoulder leads some to embrace wilderness as a obsessive ideal in need of protection. without using a religious or metaphysical justification for protecting elements of nature, men and women struggle to immerse themselves in the habitat in which ultimately they would feel protected. what is the mindset of such a person?
watching werner herzog's docu-drama about the grizzly man Timothy Treadwell, the most vibrant feature piercing through the images recorded in his solo expeditions is his displacement. having spent 13 summers in the Alaskan grizzly habitat, he documents his encounters and relationships with the bears and foxes, through which you could sense the regret of not being able to perfectly fit in.
at times dead serious about his conservationist work and its necessity, most of the times playing like a kid left home alone, making up friends and voices, the man remains a mystery even in his disappearance. the director advices that the documented end of Timothy be destroyed, after hearing the tape with the screams of him and girlfriend being torn apart by one angry grizzly.
absurdly enough, this bear was killed afterwards and thus the effort of the grizzly man's expeditions do not appear so valiant and useful in the end.
he did tamper with nature, but was aware of the constant threat, and could not give up what had been offering him a true meaning. the need to feel needed ...or selflessness? i can't really judge, and perhaps one should not.

TT one hand holding the camera and recording himself: "and that's the story here...for me, Timothy Treadwell, the kind warrior. can i take it? i'm trying...ok, yeah, i can do it, why not? i've crossed the halfway point...i've had danger in the bone...i've almost died, i've almost fallen off a cliff. the danger factor is about to amp up in the maze [grizzly maze], the maze is always the most dangerous...lord, i do not want to be killed by a bear...i do not! i always cannot understand why girls don't want to be with me for a long time...because i have really a nice personality...i'm fun...i'm very very good in the...well... you're not supposed to say that when you're a guy...but i know that i am, they know i am...aaaaaaaand i don't fight with them...i'm so passive...bit of a patsy...which is that of a turnoff to girls to be a patsy?"

john muir, steve irwin, timothy treadwell, jane goodall and many others have lived in the light of man being on a par with wildlife, and undoubtedly this needs to be the truly ethical approach to modernity.