Who let the dog out, woof, woof?
Posted 25 January 2008
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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A culture wiped clean and washed out - hand me a can of paint and a bucket!
Posted 16 August 2007
We are living ‘at the end of times’ surely, it must be. How can it be anything else? We have all become like the worst kind of spoilt little children, always demanding stimulation and entertainment. I gaze in amazement at anybody I come across who finds life stimulating enough without the need for the artificial or alcohol induced. The exceptions prove the rule.
If you are not being entertained, with the intelligence knob at low, in a cinema or online or at a theme park; or you are not prostrate on a, damp British or sweltering foreign, beach or watching TV or reading the latest best-seller; what are you doing? Complaining that you are bored, I’ll wager!
When all generations start sounding and acting like children we must be devolving, surely. We are all frightened by everything, just like children. We are all scared of change, risk and any kind of stranger or unusual events, just like children. We are easily manipulated by the perceived grown-ups (politicians, newspapers, TV news readers, Police and anybody ‘in authority’), just like children. We all demand instant attention, gratification and satisfaction, regardless of cost, just like children.
We don’t bother to vote, we don’t complain (officially) but whine and whimper and have tantrums. We loose interest in anything older than a few months and can’t focus on beyond a couple sentences in emails, texts or letters. We believe we need to change how we dress according to the diktats of fashion mongers.
What a sad bunch of fuckers we turned out to be. What a country we have out there, and it is empty. Nobody exploring it; nobody stopping and looking for long enough to appreciate it; nobody enjoying the beauty of it. Our recent obsession with immigration is obviously driven by a desire to discourage breeding outside the gene-pool so as to maintain our comfortable numbness (to quote Pink Floyd).
the high church of fear
Posted 9 August 2007
As far as archaeologists can tell, and within the limitations of the historical record, we can be pretty sure that for as long as we have had self-awareness we have been scared of death.
Our entire history, as a species, lurches from one belief system to another or from one variation on the theme to another. All organised belief systems have sought to explain why and how we have come about, how we should live and what happens when we die. They are all systems of control, which appear to be more powerful than the sword, torture or starvation. We have across the globe resisted many forms of control and repression except the religious, until recently that is.
As communications have advanced and we have become better informed, secularly, and generally better educated, we have increasingly abandoned or doubted the teachings and dictats of the ’spiritually’ minded.
This does leave a gap because we still have a natural inclination to fear death. If we don’t believe the hocus-pocus and boogey man, child scaring that constitutes most religions, where does that leave this fear?
It leaves it, good reader, wide open to exploitation by the forces of marketing and politics. If we don’t do X, Y or Z we are bad and we will die. If we are not good and obedient subjects we will suffer and probably die. If we do A, B or C we are bad and we will die.
So, now you know why we have uncontrollable global warming, global terrorism, threats of plagues, identity theft, economic collapse and runaway imigration. They are pushing our rawest, most exposed buttons to make us angry, reactionary and conformist. We are under their control and only they can save us! Free your minds fellow ingrates! Death is for the future and life is for living.
I hope I am wrong but…
Posted 7 August 2007
Something stinks.
I am clearly going mad. The only alternative is that there really is a conspiracy on a global scale and we are all its victims.
Why does our government want us to be scared all the time and why do they engineer events and circumstances to ensure we are?
Have a look at this for example: Prof. Brignell has published a chapter from his excellent ‘Epidemiologists’ on his number watch website. It is a brilliantly researched and thorough essay, exposing the lunacy behind a typical New Labour crisis; in this case Foot and Mouth Disease.
We also have terrorism, the global warming myth, food and health scares on a daily basis, a new cold-war, immigration etc. I have concluded that they must be trying to distract our attention from something far worse than any of these. I just don’t know what.
I prefer alien (the extra terrestrial kind) invasion. We have had a lot of unnecessary reports in recent months telling us UFO sightings are all hoaxes, natural phenomena or otherwise scientifically explainable and identifiable. They have told us that many times before so why remind us now? There is something going, there is you know, mark my words. If you never read this because THEY silence me, you will know I was right. RUN fer fecks sake!
It is also possible that the planet is cooling down rapidly. There are plenty indicators that this is more likely than warming. Maybe, just maybe, the ice-age returneth sooner than expecteth! RUN fer fecks sake, south!
