A thought occurred to me today that backed my impression that animals are much more than we give them credit for. Of course this is the case and Al Camus may have said it best when he said that humans are the only animals that pretend to be something that they are not.
This thought I am referring to centered on an anecdote I picked up years ago. It tells how Churchill had a parrot or a large bird of the sort that he taught a few phrases. Well, the bigger birds live decades, sometimes up to a century and often outlive their so-called owners. And so it worked out that long after Churchill has passed on his pet parrot lives on in his house, which of course now is a tourist attraction visited by many. Of course the bird at times likes to sound off and cares not who his audience is, be it a group of nuns or children. And he’ll belt listeners with a few of the phrases that Churchill taught him.
One of the things that he liked to scream was “Fuck Hitler!”
Another was “Fuck the Nazis!”
A person of the conventional mindset would suggest that this was what the bird had learned to say and having learned little else to say is one of the only things that he can say and thus is what he most certainly in any situation will say.
I think this is wrong.
The bird knows more than the conventional thinker. His awareness of the reality of things on this planet is much greater because he can tap into that collective universal consiousness that most humans spend the vast majority of their lives hiding from. See, the Nazis were never defeated. Nope. They just moved. The bird knows this and knows that his refrain is not obsolete. Instead he is just declaring what must be said if we are to save the world: “FUCK THE NAZIS!”
-GH
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