Invasion of the Anthro-Hyena

The narrative around civilization and how we ought to behave and live has many outlets.

There's the historical story - looking back at the different ages, the conquerors, the ruling family, the industrial revolution, the economy, the influence of inventions, the study of science, the development of education and social organization.

There's religion, its power over the people, and our values. There's literature, music and art. There is politics. There is media.

For most of us these influences are embedded in our own development. They influence our fathers and mothers, our teachers and neighbours. The way we see our worth is often an echo of our class and the way we are valued as part of our society.

Each family carries the values they have consciously or sub-consciously assumed is the truth. Whether we are liberal or conservative depends on how our parents saw the world and whether we were nurtured or suffered from those views, and how comfortable we are within the physical, social and economic system we live in.

Our society requires our cooperation, sustainability and ability to communicate. A healthy society requires empathy although it's rarely mentioned. The emphasis has been on control and punishment using the rule of law, physical threats and influence.

Influence is the largest part of social coherence - to make us believe that it's in our best interests to cooperate with leaders and the system.

Classrooms inadvertently teach children that being popular is what we all want and if we can't be top of the class then we must strive to be normal. Yes schools teach math, english, history, geography and sports. Schools also teach us how to get along, to be kind and considerate too but these measures don't show up on grading charts.

For all of this to work there must be other foundations too. For example we are emotional and spiritual beings as well as intellectual and physical.

You have probably heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs created in 1943. First are the physiological needs, then above that safety, then social belonging, self-esteem, self actualization and ultimately transcendence - but each one of these depends on the one before being met. If you don't have food and shelter then you can't have safety, and if you don't feel safe you don't feel you belong, and so on.

Our health and well being require wisdom from humans who are civilized and functional. However the current obsessions have ignored these. Our governments and economy have dismissed the physiological needs of the homeless and the hungry, and so they are shunned, trashed, outlawed.

How did we give up the wisdom, love and esteem earned from centuries where we accept that the things we create are worth as much but not more than the life we live?

The transitions were minor but led to the next stage ready for the next ideology, and we can look at certain people who had power and wealth who manipulated nations then continents.

The most powerful nations have governments that glorify rulers, but show little concern or even outright contempt for the marginalized and the poor.

Colonialism destroyed the first nations and indigenous peoples along with their language, rituals and wisdom. In place of the reverence for life were oppressive doctrines from those who had learned how to divide and conquer.

"We must answer their call. Our Mother Earth, militarized, fenced-in, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated, demands that we take action. Let us build societies that are able to coexist in a dignified way, in a way that protects life. Let us come together and remain hopeful as we defend and care for the blood of the Earth and of its spirits.”

– Berta Caceres, Indigenous rights and environmental activist of the Lenca people, murdered in Honduras in 2016. (CounterPunch, Kenn Orphan)

But what is lost - is not just culture, it is gratitude for life on this planet which has been replaced with the worship of power over everything, rituals of everlasting war, misanthropy and misogyny. A cynical cruel sneer of anything that is beautiful for beauty's sake.

The Anthro-Hyena is the god of the psychopath, the teacher of greed, the prince of spite, and the worship of death. The Anthro-Hyena can't see the world, it only sees the charts of how to rule, the next strategy, the stock of weapons, the size of the boots, the walls of the prisons. The Anthro-Hyena will not accept any conversation that nurtures, helps, heals or loves.

The Anthro-Hyena rules the largest and richest institutions, big business, government, the market - and the Anthro-hyena exists only in ideology, not in the sentient womb.