If you find yourself under attack by a gang, or mob, and there is absolutely no escape and you are not armed with a weapon to protect yourself or your loved ones, then the same rules may apply as you find in the animal kingdom when being attacked by a pack of dogs. If you run during an attack you possibly risk getting mauled even worse than the mauling you may already be in for because this may draw out the animals’ group instinct to take down and savage its prey.
If you stand and try to stare down an aggressive animal or animals, no matter how big or small the aggressor(s) may be, you risk provoking an unnecessary attack because eye contact is a sign of aggression. If you ‘hesitate’, even for one second, to submit it is a sign of disrespect, and the ‘code of the pack’ in the animal kingdom, (like the ‘code of the street’ for your local gangbangers,) is you must suffer if you hesitate to submit thus disrespecting the person in a position of dominance over you at the moment. So ‘don’t buck the jack’.
And if you do hesitate you may suffer possibly deadly consequences because the aggressor that gets disrespected by a victim will be perceived by the other aggressors in the pack, or mob, as a weakling. Perception is reality and no weak aggressors are allowed to ‘run with the pack’ and they will be winnowed out. Recent evidence of this concerning ‘don’t buck the jack’, you heard police statements in cities across America telling victims that, nowadays, if you get robbed or mugged, do not hesitate, do not resist and just give up whatever the robbers or muggers want. Imagine you and your loved ones having to live like this every day, having to co-exist with fear from a position of weakness and helplessness where the public feels there is a lack of law and order and no fear of consequences by lawbreakers.
In a pack mentality only the strong survive to carry on the pack DNA. Or in the case of a gang or mob only the strong can be trusted to be forever loyal to the gang and this trust and loyalty is constantly being tested day to day to ensure that trust and loyalty continues, so no weaklings allowed…ever. Or you are ‘out’…’gone’.
If while being attacked you strike out at the aggressor(s) you risk a lengthy, more prolonged attack. If other aggressors are trying to attack your loved one(s) and you defend them you may likely get hurt but possibly consider trying to shield the attack from the aggressor(s) with your back to the aggressors by continually turning away from the attacker(s), always showing your back to the attacker(s) and, above all, without making eye contact. Making eye contact with aggressors, as you know, is a sign of aggression on your part and may be met with a counter attack possibly from your blindside by one or more of the other aggressors in the pack. Remember in the dinosaur movie, Jurassic Park, the way a pack of predators work is they get your attention getting you to face them then others in the pack blindside you with a ‘sucker punch’ or take you down with a ‘bum-rush’ attacking you from your sides and your back.
Turning away from an attacking dog but not running away may possibly help curtail a prolonged attack according to some dog trainers. However, if aggressive dogs knock you down on the ground, possibly the only thing you can do is curl up into a ball, face down, arms covering your head to submit, making sure you cover your ears with your hands. Attackers love attacking the face, head and ears, even to the point of ripping off your ears from your head. If this does not work and the attack continues, playing dead may possibly cause the aggressor(s) to give up, at some point, at least according to some dog trainers who specialize in aggressive animal behavior.
Mother Earth’s aggressive inhabitants too often take no prisoners. This is all part and parcel of the Earth’s revenge on all those who ‘let their guard down’, make mistakes, or become complacent with their surroundings and basically do not figure out how to prevent or survive attacks in the natural, chaotic, ruthless, ‘dog eat dog’ world. It truly is survival of the fittest.
Even aggressive common viruses, once treatable, as well as resistant strains of diseases, do NOT always respond well anymore to old standby antibiotic remedies. Feeding antibiotics to farm animals, animals destined for human consumption, is primarily an aggressive, potentially deadly capitalist tactic done to increase profits and has little, to nothing, to do with preventing disease in farm animals. ‘Loading up’ farm animals with antibiotics makes farm animals grow larger and grow faster so they can be harvested faster all for bigger, faster profits. Fast is aggressive.
Unfortunately, this practice also paves the way for potential drug-resistant viruses for those who regularly eat commercially raised farm animal and fish flesh. Once routine ailments, today, may turn into “killer” diseases. Plagues that sweep the world may be Mother Earth’s revenge to solve its own problems and there may be little man and his capitalist, commercial culture can do to stop this runaway train.
New antibiotics and vaccines are not being developed fast enough to treat drug-resistant bacteria. Today, we have “superbugs” not easily influenced by modern day antibiotics and vaccines. Incurable infections may become widespread, especially in hospitals.
Antibiotics have been over-prescribed by physicians for decades for everything that is even potentially infectious. It may take as little as 25 minutes for a strain of bacteria to figure out a way to resist a prescribed antibiotic. Factor in the use of antibiotics in commercial farm animals and fish, which possibly affects all flesh-eaters, and it is no wonder why we may be becoming drug-resistant to bacteria potentially resulting in more and newer infections that are getting harder to cure.
A false sense of security would be the naive belief that our illustrious scientists will always discover new means for dealing with plagues and contagious diseases. The remedies we may need to survive may never exist. The only cure may be found in
Mother Earth’s plagues that wipe out much of mankind forcing it to start over similar to when nature’s forest fires burn off the land to replenish and foster new growth.
There is also terrorism going on in Mother Earth’s oceans which may be subtle, covert and even socially acceptable in the pursuit of profits. The large-scale commercial devastation of wetlands, rain forests, marine wildlife and oceanic eco-systems uses commercial technologies capable of destroying vast tracts of wildlife and its habitat, all in the search to sell and consume.
If marine life and marine eco-systems get damaged, depleted or destroyed through the arrogance and greed of large scale commercial fishing fleets worldwide in the pursuit of profits, then so goes mankind in the future. Where are the U.S. politicians and activists on curtailing the rape, pillaging and plundering of the high seas?
U.S. politicians and activists distract consumers about putting plastic in the ocean when 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from 7 rivers, 5 of which are in China and the other 2 are in Africa.
In just 10 years, 10 million “local” fisherman around the world have lost their livelihood to Asian and Western commercial fishing operations; “locals” who have witnessed firsthand the devastating effects on their local fishing areas where these 10 million fisherman live.
For example, for centuries, the country of Somalia, mostly desert, was a land of fishermen. They only had fishing to survive since no one on the planet has yet to invent ways to grow farm crops in a desert. Instead of spending funds to figure out how to grow crops in the desert, rich capitalists explore outer space figuring out ways to give ‘the rich’ high priced rocket rides into outer space.
When waters around Somalia lost all its fish to ‘big rig’ commercial fisherman this is when the people of Somalia turned to kidnapping ships on the high seas for ransom since they have no other ways to earn an income and feed themselves, other than allowing wealthy terrorist groups to feed them while using their country as a base for spreading terror elsewhere in the region.
Terrorizing can be subtle and socially acceptable. Affluent Western and Far Eastern civilizations have also rolled over and submitted to the “buy ’til you die” consumer, commercial culture. Consumption can be addicting. For alcoholics there are treatment centers but for those “hooked” on consuming they simply get encouraged by advertisers to maintain their spending habits and consume more. Acquiring ‘things’ is revered. Consuming has become an American past time.
Meanwhile, civic-mindedness becomes alien, the neighborhood withers and politicians feed on it all with disingenuous promises. Americans focus on consumption more than most other cultures. Americans shop four times more than their western European counterparts and Americans also spend more of their precious time taking care of the possessions they purchase. It is not that Americans value money and their possessions more, it is just that they value everything else less and nothing is in place to help keep their greed in check.
Advertising communicates that commercial values are of utmost importance. In the end are we trading our children’s minds for commercialism? These days, our wavering value structure permits it, similar to the acceptance nowadays of violent behavior and violent criminal acts in society as normal and acceptable acts we can live with just to ‘get along’.
For the so-called ‘good life’ we work like crazy to attain it and keep up our standard of living, but many of us are not getting that much satisfaction from it. Attaining and maintaining the good life forces most of us to become obsessed with time. Every activity gets consciously, or unconsciously, measured by how much time it takes to complete it and not necessarily always by the satisfaction it brings. One of the consequences of sustaining the good life nowadays is that we are enjoying it less and having less time for the activities which once “truly” defined the good llfe–friends, love, charity, reflection, thought and inquiry.
For those motivated to be inspired through inquiry, successful scientific inquiry does not always necessarily proceed rationally or reasonably. For example, before Galileo discovered the Earth was round, the so-called scientific authorities of the day said, the Earth was flat until Galileo said, “No. Based on my scientific calculations using Copernican physics the Earth is round.” Galileo was swiftly arrested for his teachings, branded a heretic, agreed never to teach again and then was held under house arrest for the rest of his life. It was not until 300 years later that the scientists of the day said, “Galileo was right. The Earth is round.”
At the time, Galileo defended the Copernican revolution in physics, not rationally, but with an idealistic zeal mixed with persuasive rhetoric and subversive propaganda, and as it turned out, rightfully so. Intellectual progress stresses creativity, wants and desires, instead of complete, rigid adherence to scientific method, scrutiny and authority. Oftentimes anarchist thought, like that of Galileo’s, should replace rationalism. It allows the scientist freedom without having to threaten scientific law and order.
This whittling away of reason, in favor of the principle of ‘anything goes’, is the way toward progress. The reality may be that scientific discovery is closer to ‘myth’ than it is to scientific method or philosophy, despite what the scientific community would like you and the nation’s leaders to believe. Those who reject the science of ‘anything goes’ have already decided to reject it in favor of another way of seeing things. Have you ‘put your blinders on’ and simply possibly accepted mainstream thought or perspective without really thoroughly investigating it? If it is the status quo you are accepting, or group consensus, have you considered its disadvantages and limits?
Accepting or rejecting ‘handed down’ facts, theories and ideologies is an individual decision one has to make on their own. However, “liberating your mind” in favor of possibly ‘anything goes’ may be the ONLY way to achieve everything you have yet to learn or fully realize.
The human brain is the most complex matter we know of. We know more about the stars in the sky than we do about our brain. Since we supposedly use only 10% of the brain’s capacity, it may be practically impossible to understand how the brain works and even trying to understand it may be an insurmountable task.
Our brain is mankind’s greatest hope. It can be used constructively or destructively. So what is humanity’s greatest danger? Hate of opposing thoughts and ideas, envy of power and desire for control at any cost. Hate, envy and desire….all of which, of course, are conjured up in the brain.
Your mind creates your reality and this is the ONLY reality you can experience or know. Your perceptions, attitudes and willingness to experiment, or take chances, is the only reality you can know and YOU control it. Objective reality is outside, “out there somewhere”, but your experience of reality is in your mind.
So how real is real? To possibly find out try liberating your mind. For example, believing in just “one reality” is the most dangerous illusion. There are many realities created internally within your mind. Some internal realities contradict each other but none can truly reflect the external, eternal, objective truths on ‘the outside’ because we cannot KNOW them, because we can only BELIEVE in our interpretations of what we want to think these perceived realities are.
Too often reason may not breed clarity like you would like to believe but instead reason can lead to numerous irreconcilable contradictions between differing opinions. Reason does NOT settle questions…reason raises questions.
Terror and anarchy, summed up on the one side by those who control us today, and summed up on the opposite side by those who want to change things, well, like the ‘hitman’ for the Irish gangster, ‘Whitey’ Bulger, described all the activities they were ever involved in…“strictly criminal”.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCES: ADBUSTERS MAGAZINE FALL ISSUE 1997 and THE BOOK: MARKETING MADNESS BY JACOBSON AND MAZUR, 1995 and INSIDE EDITION TV NEWS SHOW February 18, 1999 and CONSUMER REPORTS MAGAZINE JULY 1995 and SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY WINTER EDITION 2001