One of the Lines of the Second Verse of the Song of Seven is this: Walk Away. Protect your ability to walk away.
Daniel Quinn notes in Ishmael that animals in captivity will
frequently lapse into a lethargy that he refers to as a rejection of
life. In the movies: Congo and Instinct, this same phenomenon is noted
and discussed. But in Instinct, the idea is applied to humans.
Specifically humans in a prison, but there are implications- Star Trek
parable style implications.
Is the mental illness we see, so common in modern first world
cultures, simply a variation on the despair experienced by all animals
placed in captivity?
Is this what happens when a thinking being runs into the walls of its
cage and can't break them down? Is this what happens when we can't walk
away?
Psychologists discovered years ago that a dog shocked randomly, with
no method of alleviating the shocks, will eventually fall to learned
helplessness. Is there a connection? Is our inability to walk away
comparable to the dog's inability to make the pain stop?
Is this what happens when we convince ourselves that there is no way out?
You tell me.
Or better yet, find a way out.
Life is Short.
Work is Crap.
Join my Cult.
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