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Lions and Gazelles

The Discovery Channel is fertile soil for metaphors about existence.  What is nature but competition for existence?  We plant gardens, demanding that the soil produce fruit for us.  Otherwise harmless rodents compete for our food, and thus become sworn enemies.  What is life but competition and struggle?  Yet watching herd animals being slaughtered by lions remains beyond my comprehension.  "Don't they realize," I think to myself, "that they outnumber the lions?"  Collectively, more gazelles will die because they won't turn on the lions.  If the gazelles agreed to attack the lions, their predators would be slain, and the gazelles would be free to establish a society suited to their needs."If only gazelles had consciousness," I used to tell myself, "then they'd realize their inferior strategy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).