dont eat where they void
dont beat their young
spit at each other for no good reason
harass until one bloody beats the smirk off the other’s face
dis-cooperate, so no one has any resource left: either absent or fouled
take more turf than they can actually defend
carry guns
hunt their own
make excuses
waste time
spend time refining stupidity
In this sense, we could do worse than electing a Swan for President,
a colony of Ants for the Senate and Congress
and do away with lobbyists who are cockroaches,
the corporations which are rodents who eat the eggs belonging to other species.
In the animal world, the roaches are never allowed the hubris to think
they can tell the ants or the swans or the bears or the cormorants
how to organize their clans and tribes.
For men, the discernment ought be the same.
Depending on which species they strive most to emulate.
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