Hello New America, Western Civilization, and This Insane Planet Earth!

By Frank Belcher

The author applies very basic animal science principles to humans as an explanation of how and why we do what we do and react to as animals ourselves. In reading this, you may come to understand more about basic greed and how it affects our lives throughout the world. Human behavior is indeed animal behavior, sometimes disguised and sometimes not. This story is the authors perception in simple terms of what is becoming of the United States of America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503576896

Frank Belcher

Frank Belcher is a retired cattleman with over fifty-five years’ experience in the following: breeding and raising beef cattle, hay and grain farming, as well as being a feedlot manager, a trucker, a real estate broker in Hawaii, a one-man manager of Bishop Trust Company’s Kona office, a business consultant and paralegal in tax and estate planning for a Hilo law firm, a past president of a rotary club in California, the founder of the New Mexico Limousin (cattle) Association, a multiengine pilot, and a medical transcriptionist. He was born in San Diego in 1935 and raised near Pine Valley, California. He studied high school at College Prep Midland School, Los Olivos, California. He has a BS degree in agricultural production from the University of California (1959), and he lives along the border between Arizona and New Mexico.

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Contents

Chapter One: Animals

Chapter Two: Most Dangerous Animal

Chapter Three: Most Endangered Planet

Chapter Four: Most Precious Life

Chapter Five: Immigration And Illegals In Usa

Chapter Six: Our Pond

The Greatest Miracle Of All

Survival

Simplicity

So Long, Usa!

America The Beautiful

CHAPTER ONE

ANIMALS

How do you live, really live on this planet? Has life become a burden? Has it always been? Are you driven by money?

We tend to question one another throughout life. Ever wonder why? Why this, and why that? Do you know that you are an animal?

Many people are not aware they belong to the animal world and could care not a whit. Most are caught up with day to day survival, a smaller number are caught up in pursuit of material comfort by following a doctrine that material well-being of the individual should rule in determining conduct. Fewer yet live a spiritual life, and the fewest of all realize they are indeed animals!

This is a simple characterization of Homo sapiens. You have the ability to recognize where you might fit in the foregoing paragraph, because you have intellect. It has been said by many that animals do not possess the power to reason! Those same people will argue it is because intellect is missing. Wrong! Intellect and the power to reason is found in all animals, to a greater or lesser degree, and within any species, according to the amount of gray matter they possess, or better yet, make use of! Science today is continually making discoveries that prove this.

Anyone who doubts that a cow, that female member of the bovine species, lacks reasoning power, hasn’t stopped to study a cow very long. Just step into a bull ring with the matador, and you will observe the bull eyeing you, then the matador, and back and forth, sizing up the situation. He will make a decision based on the extent of his intellect and power of reasoning. So will the tiger whose cage you have entered at the zoo. And so will any human into whose territory (or space) you have entered as a foreign entity.

We Americans, an entity of over 300 million Homo sapiens specimens, and our allies, entered Iraq because our leader and his advisors perceived that our space had been violated by that foreign entity or was about to be entered in a manner to cause us harm. Or because our leader and his advisors were following the doctrine "that material well-being of the individual should rule in determining conduct". Ever think of that?

If the latter were the case, our leader deceived us with his reasons for entering Iraq in the very same manner that the crafty coyote cunningly calls for help circling his prey. A reason: materialism. There are, of course as many arguments supporting this latter contention as there are supporting the preceding one because it is a matter of opinion or judgment. Most of the world will agree that Western civilization has become very materialistic, but whether that is good or bad and to what degree, is being debated all the time. Humans are peculiar animals. They seem to love debate, in fact thrive on it. For some it causes stress, and the way the media encourages and tries to stimulate debate all day long every day makes some people think the pharmaceutical and medical businesses support the media’s creation of stress. The idea is to make you sick, because it’s good for business!

Following Iraq, whether or not the United States enters the space of Iran, North Korea, or even Russia or China will obviously depend on many factors and issues, but humans will create the issues from which those factors will evolve, and history has proven time and time again that materialism will remain the guiding principle, intensified by greed. Humans try to hide greed for the most part, and those that don’t are considered animal like by the others. Nobody likes an obviously greedy person.

But you see greed everywhere in the peculiar animal world we humans belong to. Have you ever applied for a job and been told you were overqualified? That’s another way of saying We don’t want you, go away! The employer could simply be complying with employment laws in advertising a position that has been reserved for someone else and didn’t want you in the first place. Perhaps such an employer is convinced you won’t last long at the job if hired, because he or she fears you will move on up the ladder to utilize your many talents elsewhere for greater reward, wasting their time (money). See any greed here? On both sides? What if you needed whatever job you applied for RIGHT NOW, and were willing to take just about anything?

If you were underqualified you would know it before applying, if there had been a decent job description, and would likely not bother. The US Government at their OPM website USA Jobs has finally caught on and encourages you to make multiple resumes when applying for federal jobs – tailoring each one to the ksa’s (knowledge, skills, etc.) they require for each job. But if you have acquired the requisite ksa’s from many different jobs in the past, a detailed resume explaining your complete work experience will disfavor your opportunity for an interview! Many states have tailored their government job websites to match the federal method. Is this greed if government as an employer wants the biggest bang for the buck it can get?

Does competitive sports generate greed? You bet! And it starts even before little league. So, you’ve already guessed it – controlled greed is fostered by Western society! So, how about Eastern society? Is greed prevalent there? Certainly, because it’s an animal instinct coupled to survival.

Have you ever seen a greedy horse? It usually has to do with eating, or sex. If a horse by itself is greedy enough to consume far more grain than is the acceptable amount, and it has access to it, serious consequences may occur, such as colic. If not attended to by a veterinarian or person familiar with treating colic, chances of death are great. If the greedy animal is with a group and tries to chase others away so it can overindulge, it may become highly irritable, squealing, kicking at others, and so on. If two or more stallions run loose as on the range with a band of mares, the stallions will fight until one dominates the others, and they have been known to fight to the death. The same male greediness over sex occurs also in herds or groups of cattle, reindeer, elk, deer, and other cloven hoofed animals, felines, whales, humans and all animals. Humans can exercise restraint against greed in its many forms when they are motivated to do so, and this is often called will power.

Money and resources used by mankind are often the focal points of greed, with petroleum not being alone as a highly sought resource. It is not the cheapest source of energy, but greed dictates that mankind use it first before going to the greater production expense in harnessing other forms of energy!

Dollars chase fossil fuel in different ways, and in the USA citizens become pawns moved around the national chessboard by those with power. Power currently is held by those who have invested heavily in the petroleum industry, and that power is routinely exercised upon the citizenry following the age old doctrine of using other people’s money to enhance the petro industry. This makes the fat cats even fatter! Don’t think for one minute that oil isn’t an underlying factor for the power brokers as they manipulate the USA into and out of wars, treaties, concessions and foreign aid as the dance goes on. History has already proven it.

Commerce itself has become a greed game. Politics always has been. When they mix, as under the second Bush administration, you see a President of the United States playing in his sandbox with American lives instead of toy soldiers. It matters little if one watches televised news on the Republican oriented Fox network or the Democrat oriented CNN, CBS or ABC, or whichever. The newscasts focus on who is the greediest one today, what sensational murders have taken place, a little about the weather, and a slice of human interest whether in sports, medicine or where they can find it. News is always opinionated, and the viewer must separate fact from fiction and embellishment. News is very big business!

Although animals other than homo sapiens play games, such games are usually physical rather than mental. However, prey manipulation, if called a game, is played by all animals. Solicitation, under the guise of business development or salesmanship keeps the engines of commerce running. Most of the characteristics of homo sapiens in business and sex are simple animal behavior in disguise. We are simpler than you realize, covering ourselves with layer upon layer of disguise. Indeed, wolves in sheep’s clothing!

Just observe other humans in the context of animal like behavior that you have witnessed from time to time with animals you are familiar with, and you will begin to see more clearly. Life itself is a condition which puzzles us, and forever