If I were from Mars, I would wonder why human beings concentrate so hard on what I once heard a human being refer to as the “real estate†of the body… those ‘parts’ without armor that occur at the joining of their legs and torsos.
Modern humans seem to focus on this one tiny area on their bodies to the exclusion of all the rest of the body. What about the ears? The head? The brain? The heart? There must be something about those ‘parts’ that is as vital to life as food and water… In fact, perhaps it is the death of the life force flowing through those ‘parts,’ rather than loss of brain or heart activity, that causes real death in human beings.
Still, the focus on barriers and boundaries about how, when and where those ‘parts’ are used and by whom, seems odd. Human beings don’t seem to mind if people see eye to eye. They don’t mind if people go toe to toe. They don’t mind if people are cheek to cheek or elbow to elbow.
They don’t even seem to mind if this little piece of real estate at the V of the body is groomed, plowed, seeded, exchanged or whatever else amongst consenting grown ups, as long as it is accomplished free of charge.
To the Martian mind, it is puzzling that only when money is exchanged over these tiny clefts and prongs of the human body, that humans on earth seem to fly up in to the air in huge flapping excitement and horrification, and suddenly call forth many trackers to hunt for those who have done this…
And meanwhile, the humans who have presumably ‘not done this,’ begin generating stacks of paper and scribes to write it all down in detail, the who, and how and how much, but not so much a reasoned why…
And the same humans pay battalions of uniformed people a thousand times more money than was exchanged in the one original ‘real estate transaction’ to arrest these horrible developments and make them stop.
For some reason that is not clear to a Martian, showing that money was exchanged over these junctures of human bodies, makes many of the human beings accused, suddenly retire from work long before age 62.
It also appears to inhibit a natural function that humans have had from the time they were children: answering the bells that go to tiny silver boxes they talk into. A person who has dealt in this tiny real estate exchange for money seems to suffer a harsh side effect. They become deaf and can no longer hear the bells.
To the Martian mind, it seems that on earth those persons who kill one another or who harm the lives of others on purpose, or who neglect who is fragile and living… that these human beings in dire need receive far less attention that those who do various things with the ‘parts’ of their own tiny real estate… such as mentioned in this story
…. reported on by the terrestrials, Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwarz and Justin Rood over at ABC news….
D.C. Law Firm Suspends Woman Who Worked as Escort
“A legal secretary at one of Washington’s most prominent and well-connected law firms, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, has been suspended after telling her bosses she secretly worked at night for the escort service run by the so-called D.C. Madam, Jeane Palfrey.
“The woman both serviced clients and, at times, helped to run the business, Palfrey told ABC News in an interview to be broadcast on “20/20” Friday.
“The firm said it would not make her name public.
“According to e-mails the woman sent to Palfrey on her Akin Gump account, she “enjoyed and even missed” the work she did at night for Palfrey, who has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a large scale prostitution ring.
“”Perhaps not the weekly grind, but was thinking that a day a week would be fun and spa money,” the legal secretary wrote to Palfrey last year, after Palfrey had closed her business and was considering whether to re-open it….
“”We had no inkling until she informed us this Monday morning,” said R. Bruce McLean, the chairman of Akin Gump.
“The woman, who worked directly for one of the firm’s many prominent lawyers, has been placed on administrative leave.
“The firm has a policy prohibiting full-time employees from holding any other jobs. “She did not seek approval for that particular job and would not have been given it,” McLean said.
“Considered one of the most powerful firms in Washington, Akin Gump partners make up a who’s who of Washington insiders, including Vernon Jordan, former Speaker of the House Tom Foley, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and co-founder Robert Strauss, an adviser to numerous presidents.”
D.C. Madam, Jeane Palfrey, and the Case of The Moonlighting Paralegal, from “My Life as a Martian in the Media,” © 2007, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., All Rights Reserved, is printed here under Creative Commons License by which author grants permission to copy, distribute and transmit this particular work under the conditions that the use be non-commercial, that the work be used in its entirety and not altered, added to, or subtracted from, and that it be attributed with author’s name and this full copyright notice. For other uses, contact copyright holder.