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To: carranza2 who wrote (175616)8/1/2021 4:40:04 PM
From: sense  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 219714
 
Wolves are aggressive only when going after a meal, defending their pups, or fighting another wolf pack over territory. Some aberrant wolves are aggressive with members of their own pack, but I think this is uncommon.

Yes. Uncommon. But, uncommon is self limiting or self correcting at the local level in contact with an more or less well balanced environment, where existence and choices are dominated by "what is" in reality... as that applies in Darwinian fashion ? Locally made decisions tend to be functional in context.. as survival depends on them being adaptive... including, in balance, taking the occasional sheep or cow... Wolves... don't aggregate power much beyond the local pack... They may share the occasional clan meeting... as a purely social event... but they don't select aberrant individuals to positions of control over others through virtual institutions that are created... specifically to enable that ?

Wolves mostly have a fairly well balanced family and social structure, and well defined roles and relationships within the pack. When ecological systems are in balance (so, not in downtown San Francisco) that tends to be more true... just as it is true that the other communities, of plants and animals, both, fare much better when the wolves are doing their jobs without interference. Wolves tend to make the environment healthier for everyone... when the conditions the natural systems (including them) evolved to enable are allowed to manage themselves. Otherwise, without the wolves... you immediately get over-grazing, over-browsing... and plant communities that change under the pressure... with booms and busts in herbivore populations... changed plant communities that alter soils and water relations, etc., etc. Reintroduce wolves where they've been absent... and the environment changes... including that fish populations rebound with healthier stream flows...

Enabling esoteric and detached forces imposing systemic disruptions... disrupts the natural order... which means imposing systemic failure, with the damage done growing the longer the errors are sustained...

Wolves, like other species, have the occasionally cantankerous grumpy old men... mature "rogue" males with a bad attitude... and the occasional "gang" in isolated and poorly acculturated packs of mischievous or errant teens. Wolves have the good sense to isolate them from polite society... rather than aggregate them and give them power ? Problems are far more likely when the basic systems are out of balance... just as in human culture. But the relevant point about dogs is more about the opposite end of the spectrum in genetic and behavioral variation...

There are also errant individuals among wolves who, as people, we'd identify as "teched in the head"... who just never mature into functional adults. They tend to retain more "cute" features... even more rounded in form than sleek and angular as adults. And, they're far more likely to wander into camp and settle down next to the fire... as more likely to be accepting of and accepted by people, and less likely to be picked on, by people, than by properly functioning wolves...

Dogs are bred from that stock... and breeders know well enough how temperament correlates with other features... to make a dog more or less desirable for particular roles...

People have many of the same issues... with variations in capacity, brain function... and social adaptation... including psychopathy and sociopathy... intelligence... leaders versus "team players", etc., and social pecking orders determined by the variations.

And, from there... on to eugenics... with the least functional individuals in society determining for the rest... that the best thing for society... would be for them to kill everyone else ?

They'd say... "restoring a natural balance"... that just happens to be in their own unique self interest... ?

But, if that's what we're going to do... from here... they'll be more likely to prove to be "leaders" only in the sense of "among the first ones to die"... because the rest of us have had just about enough of them ?

Disrupting communication... the first resort of tyrants... is a proof their (stupid) approach to the world... can't stand up to rational scrutiny... so, isn't about reason... but error justifying itself with lies.

That's as true of "climate change" being caused by CO2... totally ridiculous... but fully connected to plans to convert the imposition of change into new revenue streams, for them... as it is of their exploitation of this virus... and a multiplicity of other things... in which they find a benefit in imposing control...

Not hard to look and find "what you are not supposed to know"... as the "secrets" are kept openly... both by the conspiracy of silence imposed in media... and by the sloth of those conditioned to not think, and do what they're told... But, their plans are published... their meetings no longer hidden... academic papers aplenty to be read... if you bother to seek them out ?

While the media doesn't publish truth about climate... only propaganda... there is a robust enough literature that is published... showing the advances being made, including IN THE FIELD, as geoengineering experiments proceed... now in parallel with population scale medical experiments... all without ever asking your informed consent or permission ?

They rule you... the system of "governance" and the media controlled by them to deflect your awareness.

Once you open your eyes... not hard to see it... if you look in the right places...

But, even those who bitch about one aspect or another being forced on them... often refuse to see anything other than "that's not right" about one narrow outcome... while deliberately looking away from what is obvious as parallel instances with a common purpose... if you look ? "They" do not submit to being ruled by the people... but have appointed themselves as an un-elected aristocracy that are above the law... and all lies emanate from them... including the lie that those elected work for voters rather than selectors...

Everything coming from that source as a directive... as "climate change" policy... or lies about the utility of vaccinations... has the purpose of empowering them... allowing them to steal from you... and subjugating you... more...

Start looking at the world that way... and you will see "what is" far more clearly than otherwise... including the elements of "no difference between political parties" being (only) partially true... as "controlled opposition" is real... but can be disrupted ? And, at the next level ? Is there no difference between the U.S. and China... other than what they want to pose as conflicts designed to enable "them" to control you ? "They" keep a finger in all pies... ensuring reality is always more complex than binary.

But, don't give them too much credit... Their "control" is always an exercise "on the edge" of failure... its tenuousness very real... which elicits the greatest reactions... and thus the largest disconnects from the comforting narratives... at those points where they see risks that might threaten their control...

Snowden... a challenge of that sort... that lifted the curtain to show the man behind the screen... He exposed their crimes... so they branded him a criminal ?

Julian Assange, similarly... tortured and persecuted for exposing lies and telling uncomfortable truths... making him one of maybe four or five real journalists left in the world, today ? The obviously extreme over-reaction in seeking to harm Assange... has awoken more people to the truth... and has done far more damage to "them" in sustaining the illusion they're dependent upon... than Assange ever could...

We're at a turning... where they're calculating the utility of masking their tyranny as having failed... so are increasingly becoming overt in naked exercise of power... thinking it won't matter ? They used to call you a conspiracy theorist if you believed that the World Economic Forum or the Bliderburgers existed... now they splash headlines when they meet... but still fail to address any of what actually matters... including the prior history of denial ?

Not a peep from the media... about torturing political prisoners in the wake of the events on January 6th ?

And, nothing about... audits occurring, in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, maybe Wisconsin... others ?

They've failed... already... What we see now is the failure modes being expressed... the obvious over-reaction to the Jan 6th protest of a fraudulent election... again only doing them more self-inflicted harm... pushing the public awareness of the problems they're imposing into acceptance of that as a truth...

The rodeo at the Bundy Ranch... one of those earlier cases where a single instance caused awareness of "somethings not right"... only without anyone really connecting the dots back to an integrated awareness from "why are they doing that" in one instance... to what does it mean in the integrated view of all the instances?

The obvious corruption of the Clintons, and of Biden ? The frauds exposed in the serial impeachment attempts... each finding no "there" there... but exposing the efforts made as frauds... and crimes ?

The election of 2020... the beginning of the end ? Fraud exposed... in a way that cannot be hidden... forcing broad awareness, first, and then converting awareness into a requirement for action... ?

War drums pounding int he background...

The fraud... being needed for them to sustain control... was itself a tell of the tenuous nature of their control... and the desperate nature of the effort undertaken to enable it... as they pulled out all the stops to "maintain control"... ensuring in that process they were only making it impossible to ignore... and impossible to allow it to continue.

Wolves go bad... and make poor decisions... as their society is increasingly detached from balanced environments... or, when they become rabid, etc.

People ? As a general rule... same thing. The aggregation of power and decision making into more centralized systems of control... detached from connection to the environment... is WILDLY dysfunctional...

The farther away from a place decisions are made... the worse those decisions are... as those seeking to aggregate more power to themselves... average "control" into a uniformity in rule for their own convenience... in a way that is insane.. Because, the world is not uniform. Nor is it static... so the farther from center rules are made... the less adaptive the species (or that portion thereof subjected to it) becomes... in the degree it submits to control... Failure follows... as a function of error in attachment to finding value in aggregation in "control"... and of empowering dysfunction in static bureaucratic rules... which are NOT in anyone's interest... other than the few power mad morons making the mistakes and imposing them on others...

The costs are imposed at the center... where the benefits aggregate... but the costs are borne at the periphery... where people get pissed off, more and more, the more egregious the misrule and tyranny become... When the costs of tolerating centrally imposed error become clearly disruptive of basic functions, and obvious as intolerable to everyone... ?

Seems that defines 2020... ?

The primary product in result... is not a net social benefit... but sustaining the expanded parasitism of sociopaths... which ends in the corruption killing the host and feeding on itself until it becomes an end unto itself... detached from reality and reason... with no actual capacity to deliver benefits sufficient to survive.

It will fail... It is failing... has failed. The only question today is... will it succeed in taking 90% of the population down with it as it fails ? "They" appear to have determined... having fewer pissed off subjects, who are aware enough of reality to be a problem... is the only path forward that enables their own survival...

On the path... there are many tells...

First among them... being in a hurry... so acting out of ignorance... and not caring... because power and control don't require being right... they only require retaining control... and the world is full of unthinking toadies who are glad to carry the water of "their superiors"... finding the social rewards of compliance with and complicity in the direction to adhere to the narrative... more rewarding than seeking truth... particularly when truth requires speaking against the propaganda... and against the control of others speech to prevent it undermining their control, etc.

Others... include the fraud of there being a meritocracy... when in fact what there is... is only a compliant mediocracy... those in power not being the best and brightest... but those with the most unfiltered lust for power and control... who are the most willing to act in preserving their own power... no matter how it looks. There will always be some central point of division... a point beyond which only "team players" are allowed to pass and be promoted... not on the basis of competence... but on the basis of a demonstrated willingness in complicity and submission.

The best... never make it to the top, some how ? Instead, you see the opposite emerge in a trend over time... with the worst people being given power... by even worse people than them positioned farther up the food chain. The system bifurcates into... submissive sycophants... and patient sociopaths...

Often, the best self select OUT... at the point where they realize the above... and see that the utility of cooperation... isn't a benefit... as the system itself is corrupted, and is not a source of benefit... and on seeing it isn't worth the cost exacted... including that in participation requiring lying about... everything ?

You see that happening in the CCP... and you see that happening in the American political system... which is not singling them out for unique attention... only noting the relative ease with which it is observed as a contrast being imposed, there... even as much of the rest of the world is very similarly disposed...

But, seeing "what is"... isn't a reason for pessimism... or optimism ?

That's always just a choice you make... about how to see the world... and how to engage it...