Bears On Welfare And The Domesticed Fox
Bears, Garbage, And Yellowstone Park
Years ago I read about the huge bear die off caused by their dependency on human garbage and it's subsequent removal. Feeding wild bears and letting the bears graze on human garbage started in the 1890s and continued until the 1970s. Federally operated Yellowstone Park scientist did not understand bears and most animals including humans are opportunists. Bears like humans are omnivores, they eat meat, vegetables, and fruit. Like humans bears go for the most accessible food first and will forgo their traditional behaviors/habits to the point of losing them.
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Policy changes in the 1970s shut down open garbage dumps and garbage containers. Subsequently the bear population, both black and grizzly suffered a huge die-off and became endangered. Depending on studies the bear population is making a comeback and generations of bears are learning to forage in the wild again' reestablishing traditional eating habits .
As I read aticles on the bear population I could not help but think of our people and our social habits, which depend on government assistance to survive. I remember reading about many generations growing up on welfare, this population like the Yellowstone bear population has grown dependent on handouts and does not know how to forage on their own. But there are many ways we are dependent on the government for food and just about everything else we need to survive. Could this also be true for those of us who have worked for the government and corporations? How many of us know how to start and run our own businesses? I know I don't!
My next thought was, how many of us can cook our own food let alone grow and preserve our own food? How many of us can make our own clothes and build our own homes? I can, can you?
We humans have grown dependent on systems that are very fragile and could collapse at any moment from man-made or natural disasters. Our energy grid is the most fragile of all. Just a few hits to certain areas in America and we could lose our electrical grids across the nation. There has been several proposals in Congress to harden our energy grids and they have been ignored.
Could we survive better than the Yellowstone Bears without our electricity and government welfare systems? Are these systems truly benifical for us? After reading these articles, I am developing doubts.Are Humans Like Domesticated Wild Foxes?
The fox experment started by a scientist Dmitri K. Belyaev who was interested in how the animals we depend on for food and friendship became domesticated. Belyaev was involved with the states fur farming industry and lost his job when one view of science was replaced by another. However, he continued to be interested in selective breeding program he started. This program is still ongoing and has raised some interesting questions regarding the plasticity of our genes regarding behavior and our environment.
Trophim Lysenko was a peasant farmer back in the 1930s that claimed he found a new selective breeding technique called vernalization that tripled crop output. His discovery wasn't new and didn't work very well but the government used his ideas to rope peasants into working for the communist regime growing food for the state that would end famine. Eventually the scam ended but there was something to the idea regarding gene expression tied to behavior and the environment and that's where the Russian Fox experment comes in and kinda flipped my trigger.
Belyaev hypotheses regarding domestication was tame behavior through selective breeding changes genetic expression and physical appearance. He selected only the tamest of silver foxes, a color variant of the red fox. He culled hard the offspring only keeping the tamest of fox cubs. The remaining wild acting foxes were raised and sold to the fur industry, paying for his experiment.
Fifty generations later Belyaev experiment has produced foxes that don't stress when interacting with humans. The foxes selected and breed for tame behavior choose to spend their time around humans, they wag their tails and will lick humans hands to show their affection. Their appearance has changed as well. They have floppy ears, color variations like piebald fur and curly tails.
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I couldn't help but think of we humans and our evolution of late. Are we domesticating ourselves through our lifestyle choices? Aggressive people are culled heavily through war and overreaching prison laws, like the 3 strikes your out law. America has the largest prison system in the world. I always thought prison was a form of birth control. But that's my uneducated opinion, I think humans are domesticating themselves right out of existence. Domestic animals are unable to care for themselves. Are we like sheep that will drown in their wool if not sheared every season?
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Great post!! :)
Thank you @mayasky.
I'm grateful that my parents were sort of "survivalists before their time." I literally grew up in a house that was being hand built around us, and we grew a bunch of our own food... in the later 1960's to early 70's. But you're right, a lot of people are dependent... and I don't necessarily think having automation do everything for us is a good thing...
It kinda pisses me off that people call those who can care for themselves and prepare for uncertain times survivalists and conspiracy theorist. Looking back through history people like your Mom and Dad would be called normal. I grew up during a time when government wasn't so invasive. We grew and hunted hunted our food, milled our own lumber, built our own homes, tended to our sick. My family comes from small business and farming stock. We were the authority in our own lives. I'm grateful for my family too!
I know what you mean... reminds me a bit of a meme I saw some years ago. Photo of a vegetable shop with a sign outside that reads "We only sell organic, non-GMO, pesticide free, fair trade, naturally grown, small producer, hand harvested produce. Or, as your grandparents used to call it: FOOD."
Yes, sorta...
There are groups that want utter control of all the sheep. These narcissists will stop at nothing to gain more and more control. They infest the tops of every pyramidal structure. The love the top down structure, and will do ANYTHING to be at the top of it.
Here is a book about one such person and the destruction of american free will by buying up all the education and changing it in such a way as not to teach people, but to school them. (So they all swam in the same direction from the same stimulus)
https://archive.org/details/TheLeipzigConnection
The selective breeding you think about is far more pervasive than you would ever think. It is also far less effectual than all those control freaks would want to believe.
There is a study, where they put mice in a big tube. Each spot along the tube had a few mice with food and water. And a large fan blew air through the entire structure. The mice further down the pipe went sterile. Affected by all the hormones in the air of the mice up wind of them. People operate the same way. So, all those buildings that have the windows sealed shut and the air piped in from one place... Same experiment.
But, there really isn't such a thing as a chance encounter. The children that you would bear were decided upon about the time of your parent's birth.
Your DNA is much larger and contains a lot more data than evolutionary scientists would ever be able to dream of. It contains pieces of your past lives as well as that of your blood relatives. Believe me, it really gets complicated.
And so, although these "culture designers" would love to be in charge and create ubermensch or docile sheep of people, they actually have very little control. Those genetic scientists of Gattaca were probably pulling their hair out wondering how children still had strange "problems" when the carefully selected their DNA. We really haven't even begun to study DNA. Most scientists don't even think of the magnetic properties of DNA.
My own personal experience from meditation, the mind is nonlocal and our genes act kinda like transmitters and receivers. My husband's parents survived World War II and seemed to have passed their trauma epigenetically to their children. Their children have had wonderfull stable lives but act as if they went through the trauma of war as well. Between all the wars and horrible tyranny/slavery humans have gone through has marked us deeply, hopefully we can overcome thousands of years of trauma and connect with our ancestors knowledge and let go of our deeply rooted trauma that is part of this so called domestication processes I wrote about.
The controllers are as controlled as we are by ignorance, what they do to us they are also doing to themselves.
Excellent post dear friend @reddust very good information congratulations thanks for sharing this information
Your welcome @jlufer, these are some of my favorite subjects.
If they are very interesting subjects, I am passionate about animal programs, I see many in discovery.
greetings to all the family