Re: "Labour has failed to offer us a Left wing Brexit - so our only option is the Right wing Conservativ Archived Message
Posted by Jamie on December 10, 2019, 9:03 am, in reply to "Re: "Labour has failed to offer us a Left wing Brexit - so our only option is the Right wing Conservativ"
No, Derek, I certainly don't think it the best option, but, depressing as it might be, history would suggest that we are unlikely to get out of 'prison' in my lifetime, nor, probably, the way things are going, my children's and so rather than watch that yard and their time in it shrink, if there is a way I can get an extra hour or so for them in a slightly larger, slightly sunnier yard, I will. Of course, this presupposes that the Governor will keep his promises. The 'prison' is solid, has been built to last, is well policed, well controlled and there are a good many pretty distractions and divisions within, but its chipped walls will crumble over time. Like I said, I'm under no illusions. Maybe what we need is a Baboon Revolution... The Baboon Revolution Life in a baboon troop can be violent and tense. Dominant males run the show, and anything that displeases or threatens them is met with aggression. Their behavior sets the tone for the rest of the baboons. But a curious thing happened in Kenya in the 1980s. When a tourist lodge started dumping its food scraps in a pile in the bush, the delicious heap created fierce competition among the local troop’s top males. Each day, the dominant baboons gathered to battle over the leftovers—that is, until some spoiled meat infected the males with tuberculosis, killing them off in one fell swoop. Only those baboons that never had the chance to dine at the dump (subordinate males, females, and the young) survived, and interestingly, with the bullies now gone, nobody aggressively stepped up to fill the power vacuum, as one might have expected. Instead, the troop started to become really chill. According to the New York Times, “threats, swipes, and bites” were replaced with “affection and mutual grooming.” Also, new males were able to join the troop without risking death and dismemberment, and the newbies began behaving in a more peaceful manner too. What’s more, blood tests revealed lower levels of stress hormones in the lowest-ranking baboons when compared with lowly baboons from more traditional troops. Perhaps most remarkable of all, this cultural shift continues to this day, three decades later.
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