Humans invest so much in science
on the basis of 'better the parasite you know
than the one you don't', and they always
want to know more.
This is fine, up to a point.
But the best parasites, e.g. domesticated pets
have a self knowledge of their dependent nature.
They practice a calm and passivity towards their keepers,
the better to be kept-
even when the price is living ill and mis-bred.
We euphemize this as 'cupboard love'.
We project that they know nothing.
But pets have a modesty and calm
which we as the species on the planet
that is the most over consuming,
over wheaning and over-bred, lack.
Perhaps it is sub-section of Gia Theory
that the species to define parasitism will be
the biggest parasite of all, and the most resistant
to recognising the power of parasitism on itself.
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