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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAUSTRALIAN WATER RAT
https://stories.starmind.org/australian-water-rat/Rats have been around a long time. Rats were there when a weird looking primate decided to climb down from the trees and build a new life. Rats were there when those primates learned to work together to protect one another to ensure everyone had enough to eat. Rats were there when the primates developed technology, when they developed new methods of communication, when they learned to pair greed with fear, leveraging their desires for safety and comfort to drive world-wide expansion. Rats watched the primates slowly subvert the promises of safety and comfort into glee from taking those very things away from others. Rats watched most primates fight with one another over scraps while a small number of primates took more and more away from the rest and not only the primates that were there, but the primates that were yet to be stealing from the future simply so they could confidently withhold safety and comfort from those in the present.
Rats are watching primates destroy their own childrens future for no reason other than they know they wont be alive then so it doesnt matter. Rats dont understand how in a world where the majority power of these primates follow tenants that involve treating others well, feeding them, clothing them, taking care of them the same majority power treats others poorly, starving them, stripping them, actively harming them. Rats dont understand how primates can develop the ability to see the future and then, as a group, agree that the future doesnt matter. Rats dont understand, yet, but theyre trying. Theyre studying. Theyre learning.
When their turn comes around they wont make our mistakes.
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AUSTRALIAN WATER RAT (Original Post)
gilpo
Mar 2019
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gilpo
(708 posts)1. Also good: AXOLOTL
https://stories.starmind.org/axolotl/
Axolotl pointing out that holding active shooter drills in the same environments that give rise to those shooters just teaches them how to more effective killers.
This axolotl knows that schools are all about learning but suspects that this may not be the best lesson.
Axolotl pointing out that holding active shooter drills in the same environments that give rise to those shooters just teaches them how to more effective killers.
This axolotl knows that schools are all about learning but suspects that this may not be the best lesson.
Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)2. "follow tenants..." That's just creepy!
tenant: a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
"council-house tenants."
I think the author meant "tenets."
tenet: a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy. "the tenets of classical liberalism."