Who let the dog out, woof, woof?
I have found myself watching, for several weeks now, several episodes of the marvelous 'Dog Whisperer' on Sky3 (via Digital Terrestrial - 'Freeview').
This is superb television staring the brilliant Cesar Milan. He is a genius. He is the pack leader and fully understands the psychology of the dog pack and how that works in human company. Even more importantly, he knows how human psychology works in the company of dogs.
Most episodes, his help is focused more on the human issues than the dogs'. The dogs are much simpler creatures than we all imagine and are put in their proper place in the pack very quickly by Cesar. The humans take a little longer.
I see a link between Cesar's work and our social ills generally. It looks increasingly obvious to me that humans are far simpler creatures than we delude ourselves to be. We too are pack animals in need of leadership, some of born to the job, others not. We are all taught by our 'betters' that we are free to achieve whatever we are willing to work for etc. etc. Most of us seem to aspire to more, with our unleashed free-will and live at odds constantly with our fellow humans.
Perhaps as a society we just need a sharp tug on the leash or jab in the shoulder every time our minds start to wander into cloud-cuckoo-land, or every time I start to rant! I would be so much happier in 'calm-submissive' mode following the pack leader.
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