Human behavior all too often mimics the worst of animal conduct. Superior intellect doesn’t eliminate history’s knowledge - primal attributes excel in communal settings!
Over two decades ago I had the opportunity of a life-time; I went on a photo safari to the Serengeti plains of Africa. The wilder-beast wandered aimlessly around as the golden haired lionesses crouched through the tall yellow grasses. Seemly unaware of the dangers, the herd continually chewed the nutrients provided in their migratory path.
We photographed as the half dozen lionesses stalked the heard. When danger arose, the beasts scampered in a harmonic mass – terrified, yet intuitively gaining strength from the members around them. Within seconds a dull screech was heard around a cloud of dust and grass; a mind-numbing moan along with an unfathomable roar was confirmed by all around - the heard stopped.
Instinctively, the dinner meat that still survived returned to chewing their cud of cape grass. With that stupid look upon their face and drool from their still working mouths, they appeared to say – not me – not today!
Paraphrasing Pastor Martin Niemöller words about Nazi Germany.
- First they came for the steel worker and I did not speak out because I was not a steel worker.
- Then they came for the textile workers and I did not speak out because I was not a textile worker.
- Then they came for the auto workers and I did not speak out because I was not an auto worker.
- Then they came for the dot coms and I did not speak out because I was not a dot com worker.
- Then they came for the pilots and I did not speak out because I was not a pilot.
- Then they came for the construction worker and I did not speak out because I was not a construction worker.
- Then they came for the hedge fund/real estate workers and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Not me - not today; no collective cud?
