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Humans doing great good in healing our broken treaties with dogs.
Vick's
Dogs being rehabilitated
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Satire: Nathan
Thur interviewed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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With this eclipse of September 11th,
May sociopathic tyranny, and its tools of torture, disaster opportunism,
profiteering from war and mega-disaster
be eclipsed by sane reverence, empathy animated kinship and reverence
for life moving back into positions of leadership:
The
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
 Mythic
News
(former head of the Humane Society, Michael Fox, once said in a
conversation with Caroline:) We humans have far more in common socially
with wolves than we do with apes, and that wolves don’t determine
leadership based on dominance, but on charisma. And in wolf culture,
charisma is measured by who initiates play best. Not just play,
initiates “let’s go hunting,” etc. as well, but
“play” is at the top of the list. And we can tell the
wolf leader within ten days of birth, because it’s the pup
with the lowest resting heart-beat. The calmest and the most imaginatively
dynamic (what late ally Kurt Vonnegut would have called “the
wampeter,”) – now, that’s a leadership criterion
for which I could root. Especially if we syncretize it with goose
leadership: the lead goose always rotates. The charismatic wise
wolf part of ourselves passes the baton to teammates, as we all
circulate between back-stage and on-stage.
We have abdicated our Saturn, our charismatic
Wise Wolf leadership, to sociopaths missing the whole point of the
game of life…
As the late baseball manager Casey Stengel used
to say. “ Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Politician-Whisperers
Cesar Milan, the “Dog Whisperer,” teaches Mars and Saturn
dog shamanism
Without calling it that, guiding us to be pack
leaders, by being “calm and assertive,” (not excited
and aggressive). On his show, I have seen the most dramatic transformation
of dangerous aggression ever, with what he calls Red Zone dogs.
Well, we’ve got some Red Zone dogs in the
White House, and they need a visit from the Dog Whisperer part of
ourselves, so that we, the citizens re-assume pack leadership, and
the politicians job is to be calm and submissive.
Especially for this 2008
election: (November 4, 2008, a hair-raising astrological
chart, but then it’s not bad for hair to get raised, with
an exact Saturn-Uranus opposition, within one minute, that day.
We are voting for tyranny or freedom…. Couldn’t be clearer…
Gee, I hope we get to have an election. We better strengthen our
resolve.)
We, the citizens, become “Politician Whisperers,”
we are defining the job, for which we’ll be hiring. Let’s
remember the origins of the word “inaugurate,” derived
from “augur.” The augur, the diviner, would walk out
into nature and discern the augury from the patterns of birds (creatures,
plants etc.). Nature would inform us who the most responsible human
steward would be for the welfare of the whole, and only then would
they be “inaugurated.” Well, let’s re-animate
that criterion.
And while we’re re-animating, let’s
remember that to the Celts, only satire could bring down the power-abusing
King. The artist would present her satire to the unruly monarch,
who would have to respond in artful kind –
And whoever’s riff was less true –
the ground would open up and eat them.
Let’s bring that back too.
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