Once
You were
Wild.
Sure,
There were predators
The lions could be confusing
But you were free
Then came men
Faster, smarter than lions
They killed the wolves
Brought you food
(The bread of slavery, they say, is far sweeter than the bread of freedom.)
And shelter
Children were born, safe from wolves, hunger, or cold
and you grew used to man.
Centuries passed
And it seemed you outnumbered the stars
Perhaps your sons disappeared
But was it worse than wolves?
You could almost forget you were once wild
Could you return to the mountains, even if you wanted to?
And as they lead you away
You ask
Did I ever have a choice?
To explain: The process of domestication is fascinating. Some animals, like wolves, began associating with humans because they could pick up our scraps. Others, like cats, began living in our cities because they liked eating the vermin we attracted. (You might say the mice, too, are domesticated.) These relationships are obviously mutually beneficial (aside from the mice.)
The animals we eat, though, have a different–more existential–story.
Humans increased the number of wild goats and sheep available for them to eat by eliminating competing predators, like wolves and lions. We brought them food in the winter, built them shelters to keep them warm in the winter, and led them to the best pastures. As a result, their numbers increased.
But, of course, we eat them.
From the goat’s perspective, is it worth it?
There’s a wonderful metaphor in the Bible, enacted every Passover: matzoh.
If you’ve never had it, matzoh tastes like saltines, only worse. It’s the bread of freedom, hastily thrown on the fire, hastily thrown on the fire and carried away.
The bread of slavery tastes delicious. The bread of freedom tastes awful.
1And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: 3And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full… Exodus 16
Even if the goats didn’t want to be domesticated, hated it and fought against it, did they have any choice? If the domesticated goats have more surviving children than wild ones, then goats will become domesticated. It’s a simple matter of numbers:

The future belongs to those who show up.
Which future do you chose?
I’ve always been fascinated by these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox
The were tamed fast, in my opinion. It doesn’t take ten thousand years or whatever.
I have a theory about attractive girls. Girls are more attractive where a lot of Men have been killed in war for obvious reasons. Could be that Women are more temperamentally comparable with Men there also. This breaks down of course with immigration.
I think a lot of the aggressive, Feminist,(I’m speaking of hyper-rights Feminist), will just vanish over time. It’s such a complete disadvantage for Men to be married now as Men lose all rights when married that they will only do so with those they see as either more attractive or fair. Lower classes will still have more variety.
Of course if we don’t stop then the White countries will be totally over run be the darker countries and all will be doomed.
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Hey, Sam, Simon wants to know if he can email you or if you’re on Twitter or something.
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Sorry it took me so long to get back. I don’t use any social sites and really don’t do email. If he can’t say it in public…then I probably don’t want to be involved.
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No worries (not like I care, anyway.) I think he just wanted to chat, anyway.
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[…] Source: Evolutionist X […]
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This works on other levels, now that I’m thinking of it. Land’s idea of humans being servants to intelligence selection/capitalism ever iterating, or the older, more general servants to the gods. In the end, who sets the selection parameters?
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Thanks.
Cities kind of eat humans and turn them into buildings.
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[…] natural predators (ie wolves) and provide a source of valuable salts (ie urine.) The origin of domestic goats and sheep probably looked similar, though the domestication of cattle was probably a more conscious […]
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