The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak

By David Sinclair

In the war of the wolves and the sheep, what if the sheep started winning?

Are human wolves a keystone species of the human race? If they were hunted to extinction, leaving no one to winnow the mediocre mob, what would happen to humanity? The narrator in the movie Idiocracy was on point when he said, “Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.”

The same is true of strength. Without the strong, the weak will reproduce more and more and eventually there will only be weakness, mediocrity, an inability – an impossibility – to achieve anything great and glorious.

The strangest war is being fought. It’s a war to destroy human intelligence and human strength. This war says that wolves must be exterminated or made into non-wolves, by taming them. And then they can become … pets. You know, just like dogs. You put a collar on them. You put a leash on them. You take them for walks. You tickle their tummy. You make them perform tricks. You make them roll over and play dead. They are wholly dependent on you. They have separation anxiety when you’re not there.

They have to make the intelligent stupid. They have to make the strong weak. But they don’t know what they’re doing.

The task is not to tame wolves. It’s to make them smarter and stronger. It’s to sublimate them. Without the wolves, there is only decadence and degeneration. Without the wolves to control mediocrity, mediocrity grows exponentially. Why did the Roman Empire fall? It was because all the Roman wolves had gone. Only mediocrities were left. They could do nothing to hold back the barbarian tide.

Civilizations always end when the wolves vanish. New cultures begin when new wolves start a new lupine era, full of strength and vigor.

Are you a lone wolf? Are you one of the wolf pack? Or are you part of the gang trying to tame all wolves?

Do you want to see the empire fall? When it no longer has any strength left, when mediocrities are in charge of everything, then the end is certain. As Wilfred Owen said, “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? … Was it for this the clay grew tall?”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9781447831624

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The Wolf Tamers

How They Made the Strong Weak

David Sinclair

Copyright © David Sinclair 2022

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ISBN: 978-1-4478-3162-4

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Table of Contents

The Wolf Tamers

The Wolves At the Door

Where Did All the Wolves Go?

The Wolves Will Blow Your House Down

When the Creative Minority Dies

Save Your Energy

The Lone Wolf versus the Wolf Pack

Push It

The New Right

The Tyrant

The Sublime Cure

The Contradiction

Conspirituality

The Human Future

The Revolution

The Anima-Persona Relationship

Chairman Mao: Wolf or Wolf Slayer?

The Maenads

Dionysus versus the Woke

Anomie

The Gruesome Guest

Liberty

Ancient Aliens?

The Indignants

The Authoritarian Ones

The Buy Button

Fucked World

The Gospel of Negative Liberty

Degeneration

Conclusion

The Wolves At the Door

"Was it for this the clay grew tall?

—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth’s sleep at all?" – Wilfred Owen, Futility

The human race is witness to a war that never ends – the war between the exceptional and the mediocre.

The Supermen are always arrayed against the Last Men.

The great are always confronted by the herd.

The strong and the weak stand on opposite sides of the wall.

What kind of humanity should we have – one that never ceases to promote the values of the herd, or one that relentlessly pursues greatness and glory?

So much of modern human history has been devoted to acclaiming the herd as the greatest good. Democracy, consumer capitalism, liberalism, and so on, all revolve around herd values. They have no connection to the noble, the honorable, the demanding, the excellent. The modern person wants to party, not to work hard to accomplish anything amazing. Having a good time beats everything else. The summum bonum, the highest good, is fun.

That’s the modern way. Humanity wasn’t always like this. It used to be high-minded. It used to value hard work. It used to be concerned with greatness. With the likes of Lycurgus in Sparta, Pericles in Athens, and Hadrian in Rome, it was led by people with a commitment to excellence. Now it’s led by people committed to being as wealthy as possible so that they can have as much fun as possible and live as extravagantly and ostentatiously as possible. These people are out and out narcissists. They set the tone for the world.

These people, no matter how repulsive, can at least say they made their mark on the world. The average person, the background noise, cannot. The idea of doing something extraordinary with their life never occurs to the average person, the routine mediocrity, the common-or-garden drudge or drone. Fun is where all their attention is directed.

The other thing that preoccupies them is status, since this has a direct effect on their fun. The higher their status, the more fun they can have. Keeping up with the Joneses, and, even better, being just above them, is highly motivational for them. That means having more money, and showing it off, as conspicuously as possible. The demonstration of their wealth and status is tremendously important to these people.

Nietzsche said, I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful – of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man, I am dynamite.

Where are the humans who want to make the earth tremble? Where are the people who want to hold lightning bolts and talk in voices of thunder? Where are those who want to bring convulsions and marvels to the earth? Where are the creators who will change the destiny of the humanity?

These few, these priceless few, convey all the worth of the human race. All purpose, all meaning, is located in them alone. All the rest are just noise. The signal of the human race belongs to a vanishingly small number of humans. They are responsible for everything of value. Without them, there is only void. Mediocrity is the vacuum.

Modern humans are other-directed. They emulate the mass, the herd, the flock, and never the rare, the extraordinary, the exceptional.

People want to fit in. They don’t want to stand out.

Don’t be a tall poppy. The masses will never accept you. Don’t dream of greatness. You will have the whole mediocre world against you.

The invasion of the body snatchers really happened. All noble humans were replaced by mediocre drones.

The powers-that-be do not try to create human wonders. They succeed in creating cannon fodder and factory fodder. There’s no end of McJobs for the drudges and drones.

Where are the sacred tasks? Where are the modern Spartans, trained, without apology, to be the greatest in their field that the world has ever seen? Where are the academies designed to produce the most exceptional humans, those that will transform the human race and make it a divine species?

All you get are mediocre schools for mediocrities and a whole culture devoted to universal mediocrity. Everywhere you turn, you find the gospel of mediocrity, the ideology of averageness, the dogmatism of the herd. The high priests of mediocrity stand in every pulpit, demanding more and more mediocrity. Let us have nothing but mediocrity, they say. Let mediocrity engulf everything. Let us all be mediocre together. Is that not paradise, they say? Who could complain, they say, if we are all sanctified in our mediocrity, made holy by our averageness?

The blood of modern humanity does not run hot. It is always at the same temperature: the temperature of absolute mediocrity. Who made humanity so bland? Who decided that humans should be the most banal of species?

Charles Bukowski said, I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do – mostly with my time. That is if course an entirely snobbish thing to say, but what’s wrong with that? There was a time when it was taken for granted that anyone seeking to achieve anything was a snob. Why wouldn’t you be? The opposite of a snob is a mediocrity. They have nothing to be snobbish about.

The capitalist economy is all about piling it high and selling it cheap to as many people as possible. It has no interest in high culture, high quality. High anything attracts only a small audience, a limited number of buyers. It’s not profitable. The World Controllers don’t want it.

Democracy is all about the mass. It’s never about the brilliant few. That’s why the likes of Plato and Aristotle detested democracy. They saw only danger and chaos in democracy. Dean Inge said, Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Democracy is calamitous. Because it is defined by mediocrity, democracy pays no heed to who is casting the vote, so high quality individuals are always outvoted by the mediocre mass, by an enormous number. Democracy ensures poor leadership and mediocre values. It has nothing else to offer. What would a mediocre people want with excellence? No one’s interested in that. If they were, excellence would be everywhere. Instead, we inhabit the desert of mediocrity. Huge machines crisscross the world and all they do is build more mediocrity. How would the mediocre know what excellence is? The Dunning-Kruger effect applies to excellence. If you’re not excellent, how could you ever recognize excellence?

In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig wrote, Quality – you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they have more quality. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from the things that have it, it all goes poof! There’s nothing to talk about. But if you can’t say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? If no one knows what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn’t exist at all.

Does quality exist? Can ordinary people recognize it? If quality was something people knew about and wanted, it would be all around us. People would demand it. After all, who would rather have non-quality than quality? But, self-evidently, people either don’t want quality or don’t know what it is. Or both.

Is there such a thing as mediocre quality? It’s not low quality and it’s not high quality. It’s just … mediocre. Is that what the mediocre appreciate, everything in that bland zone? Is that what they seek out? High quality never features in their thoughts. High quality demands a higher type of human. Mediocre humans have no use for it. It serves no purpose for them. They can’t appreciate it. They can’t get stimulated by it. To them, high quality is no different from low quality. It’s equally unappealing. It’s all the same thing.

In the kingdom of the mediocre, the exceptional isn’t the king. A mediocrity always wears the crown. The mediocre wouldn’t have it any other way. The mediocre king is dead. Long live the mediocre king.

All the major institutions of today’s world revolve around the average person, not the great individual. Greatness is loathed. It embarrasses and humiliates the masses, and is in any case incomprehensible to them.

No one who believed in excellence would be a democrat. No one who believed in excellence would promote consumer capitalism. No one who believed in excellence would preach the all paths and all truths of extreme liberalism.

Wolves have always been emblematic of strength, daring, activity and initiative. Cattle and sheep, by contrast, denote weakness, timidity, passivity and docility.

The excellent are much more interested in wolves than sheep. The mediocre love the herd, the flock, safety in numbers, safety in the middle of the crowd.

Whatever happened to the wolves? They were so dangerous to humans and their farm animals that these mighty predators were hunted down and exterminated in many parts of the world. Yet, by the most astonishing quirk of history, countless human homes now have a resident pseudo-wolf … the domestic pet known as the dog! This is a creature that has much more in common with sheep and cattle than with its mighty wolf ancestors. It’s like some ghastly miscarriage of the wolves, some emasculated, fading echo of something once proud and magnificent. Now some of these creatures are kept as lifestyle accessories that can be fitted into the handbags of Influencers.

PBS says, Recent molecular evidence shows that dogs are descended from the gray wolf, domesticated about 130,000 years ago. But if they all share a common ancestor, why do toy poodles and Great Danes seem to have little in common? Years of selective breeding by humans has resulted in the artificial ‘evolution’ of dogs into many different types.

Ah, selective breeding. What makes you think it’s any different for humanity? The power elites have bred the herd animal, the domesticated animal, the pathetic Last Man, interested only in his own petty comforts and personal trivia and gossip. Just look at social media today. Where are the interesting human beings? Have they all gone? Did the Vanishing happen? Were they Raptured to another world?

Nietzsche said, "The problem that I set here is not what shall replace mankind in the order of living creatures (man is an end): but what type of man must be bred, must be willed, as being the most valuable, the most worthy of life, the most secure guarantee of the future. This more valuable type has appeared often enough in the past: but always as a happy accident, as an exception, never as deliberately willed. Very often it has been precisely the most feared; hitherto it has been almost the terror of terrors; and out of that terror the contrary type has been willed, cultivated and attained: the domestic animal, the herd animal, the sick brute-man – the Christian..."

There are so few Supermen, so many Last Men. The Christian hasn’t gone away. The modern Christian is the New Age love and lighter, the Woke person, the lightworker, the extreme liberal preaching love, peace, namaste, all paths and all truths, total inclusion, political correctness, multiculturalism, cancel culture, deplatforming, snowflakery, and every possible expression of herd solidarity.

Funnily enough, the traditional Christian – the evangelical Christian who votes Trump – isn’t Christian at all. These Christians are full of rage, hate their neighbors, preach war and violence, are all about exclusion and building walls, oppose social justice, are armed to the teeth, and would never dream of being unarmed (unlike their so-called Savior). They are greedy, selfish, white supremacists who wave Confederate flags and swastikas. They worship money and property. What is it that they imagine is Christian about them? Christianity is precisely what is absent.

We have Christians who are anything but, and non-Christians who spout the Christian message on steroids. What a world!

Nietzsche said, I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers, what is harmful to it. That’s modern humanity. That’s especially the Woke human. Is there anything more degenerate than the Woke? They actively seek to become Last Men, Ignavi, pointless people who stand for nothing except opposing everyone who stands for something.

Nietzsche wrote, We no longer trace the origin of the human being in ‘spirit’, in the ‘divinity’, we have placed it back among the animals…

Science – Darwinism – removed the sacredness of life and reduced everything to meaningless, purposeless, material bodies, mere biological mechanisms, Cartesian automata. Scientists love seeing themselves as robots. They cannot endure an important humanity, a meaningful humanity, a directed humanity, a divine humanity.

Nietzsche wrote, The human being is, relatively speaking, the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, the one most dangerously strayed from its instincts. But for all that, he is of course the most interesting.

Animals behave unconsciously, instinctively. Humans are remarkable because consciousness gives us the means to overcome mere instinct. The tragedy is that humans, being animals, love behaving instinctually. Non-instinctual behavior is hard, demanding, difficult. It separates us from our animal heritage. Humans have never found the means to square this circle, i.e., to simultaneously be animal and more than animal. So, they have arrived at mediocrity, in a mediocre civilization, where they are neither animal nor anything better than animal. Mediocrity saves the mediocrities from having to exert themselves. They don’t have to strain and struggle. They just need to open their arms wide and accept all the mediocrity the world throws at them, and there’s never any shortage.

The primary vector of mediocrity is capitalist consumerism. People almost literally consume mediocrity. The consumer capitalists want maximum return on investment, maximum bang for their buck, and that means making mediocre things for the mediocre masses. Nothing sells like the mediocre. People were made for it. Literally.

William S. Burroughs wrote, The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

The junk merchants, the consumer capitalists, degrade and simplify the masses – make them as mediocre as possible – and then sell them cheap, mediocre crap. Junk! And how the masses rejoice and run into the streets yelling Hallelujah. Bread and circuses all day every day. Have a nice day.

Where are the wolves? Bring back the wolves, and set them on all the mediocrities. It’s time for the return of the Big Bad Wolf. What big teeth you have!

Where Did All the Wolves Go?

PBS said, "The dog, Canis lupus familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are different in form from wolves, mainly smaller and with shorter muzzles and smaller teeth."

If domesticated dogs are radically different from the wild wolves of the past, are domesticated humans radically different from the wild humans of the past? Is their behavior and appearance fundamentally different?

Are dogs the classic symbol of what happens when universal mediocrity is applied to a species? All of the great features of wolves were removed to make creatures suitable for living in the human home (despite that, many humans, especially children, are mauled or even killed each year by dogs in the home).

It’s harder and harder to look at humans without seeing them as dogs. Just as wolves had to be made pathetic to place them in the domestic environment as dogs, humans have had to be made pathetic to place them in the home of the elite (the world), where they can do no damage to the elite. Dogs obediently do everything their masters want, as long as their masters feed, entertain and shelter them. They are slavishly obedient to their masters. They love their masters and want to be loved by them. They roll over and love having their tummies tickled by their masters. They love being given treats, being petted, having a frisbee thrown for them to chase, and a bone to gnaw on. Their masters keep them on a leash. Isn’t that a description of the mediocre human race, of the democrat, the liberal, the god-fearing conservative?

PBS said, All modern dogs are descendants of wolves, though this domestication may have happened twice, producing groups of dogs descended from two unique common ancestors. How and when this domestication happened has been a matter of speculation. It was thought until very recently that dogs were wild until about 12,000 years ago. But DNA analysis published in 1997 suggests a date of about 130,000 years ago for the transformation of wolves to dogs. This means that wolves began to adapt to human society long before humans settled down and began practicing agriculture. This earlier timing casts doubt on the long-held myth that humans domesticated dogs to serve as guards or companions to assist them. Rather, say some experts, dogs may have exploited a niche they discovered in early human society and got humans to take them in out of the cold.

Wolves – whether lone wolves or wolves in packs – terrified humans and were often killed by humans if they came near. But a certain type of wolf was able to approach human camps and adopt such a submissive, compliant, non-threatening posture that humans did not feel inclined to kill it. Over the years, humans started to throw scraps of food at these peculiar wolves and let them near the campfire to keep warm. Eventually, they began petting them and having them as companions. Maybe they valued these particular wolves as early-warning systems for intruders (the wolves would start howling if other animals came near). Maybe they were useful in the hunt. These creatures had an extraordinarily acute sense of smell and they could be trained to carry out useful tasks, such as tracking prey.

These odd wolves, which were anything other than Big Bad Wolves, evolved into the dog, man’s best friend … the wolf as pet rather than predator, the wolf removed from nature to satisfy human taste.

So many humans are just like these wolves that turned into dogs. Rather than being lone wolves or wolf packs attacking the super-rich elite, they hang around the tables of the super-rich elite, waiting for them to throw them scraps, give them shelter, pat their heads, rub their bellies, stroke them, throw sticks for them to chase, and teach them tricks. They let the super-rich elite put metaphorical dog collars on them and walk them around on a tight leash. They love it. They love having a master.

It’s extraordinary how many humans love dogs. Dogs are more or less a pointless species, a species removed from nature by their strange interaction with humans, who bred them into all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes, all designed to appeal to human taste. They are manufactured creatures, made in the image of what humans want them to be. Dogs worship their human masters like Abrahamists worship their Master God. They are made in their master’s image, or according to their master’s taste.

What kind of human would ever want to have a dog’s life? Dogs are forced to live in the human environment with weird humans, and separated from other dogs, even though dogs are innately pack creatures.

Dogs are so confused by themselves and their strange life imprisoned with humans that they have some sort of notion that they are actually human and belong to the basic human pack, the family. They lick humans and bark at dogs rather than the other way around.

Dogs exist only to allow humans to pet them. Imagine aliens keeping humans as pets, like dogs. Humans would kill themselves rather than endure such a life, yet humans inflict this fate without a second thought on creatures they supposedly love, and even convince themselves that dogs want this life – this fake, fabricated life that has no connection to nature but is entirely for the convenience of humans because they love the baby schema (dogs are regarded as cute and adorable, like babies), and want unconditional love from creatures that never grow up into stroppy teenagers and angry adults.

There is no stranger relationship on earth than that between dog owners and their dogs. To those not in on it, it looks like a sinister cult, involving animal abuse being dressed up as affection and love. And isn’t that how cults always operate?! What kind of person imagines that they have the right to remove animals from nature just to satisfy human needs? How would you like it if a wolf removed you from nature to satisfy wolf needs?

Are dog owners animal lovers, or are they the worst animal haters you could possibly get? Many owners of slaves often talked about their slaves as humans talk about their dogs. They said they looked after their slaves much better than employers looked after their employees because they had a much closer relationship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld said, If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hate than affection.

No one who loved dogs would have a dog. You would never do that to another creature to gratify your desire to pet something and get it to unconditionally love you, like some eternal baby. How far the wolf has fallen to become this pathetic creature that trots along with humans, imagining it’s part of the human pack.

The way people treat dogs is characteristic of how fucked-up the human mind is. You get animal rights protestors moaning about this, that and the other, but 100% of them are pet owners and therefore serial animal abusers. One day there will be a dog liberation movement, and, hundreds of years from now, dog ownership will be seen as a grotesque human imposition on creatures that could not resist and just had to go along with the agenda of their cruel masters. Dog ownership will eventually be regarded as a crime. That said, people will probably have robot dogs as replacements. After all, these people are addicted to their pets. They can’t imagine life without their little familiar trotting along beside them, sniffing every post.

Many Abrahamic parents circumcise their babies to show their love for them, and subject them to extreme brainwashing to get them to share the same weird religious beliefs. To anyone else, these parents are criminals and ought to be stopped. The same argument will eventually be extended to dogs. Humans simply have no right to impose an unnatural life on other creatures. It’s one thing for humans to use animals for food, quite another to use them as substitute human babies. The first is natural, the second perverse and disturbing.

Pet dogs are just Pavlovian creatures, conditioned by their owners to behave in certain ways desired by their masters, their owners.

You see in the domesticated dog the refection of so many humans and their dysfunctional relationship with their masters, the Ownership Class, the super-rich elite. Donald Trump’s rallies resembled a man talking to a vast audience of barking, snarling and snapping dogs, who would do anything to get a treat from him and be patted on the head.

Humanity, if it got rid of pets, would be a totally different species. It would become far more cerebral, rational and logical. All sorts of strange behaviors would vanish. But sensing and feeling types won’t do without their subhuman creatures to keep them company, to keep them stimulated, to give them unconditional love. The whole love and light schtick would probably vanish if pets vanished.

Is the relationship between the Abrahamic God and his followers that of dog owner to dogs? All Abrahamists seem like dogs, begging to be approved of by their Lord and Master, willing to perform any trick to get into heaven, and terrified of disobeying him and being sent to hell.

Many dogs suffer from abandonment trauma every time their owner, their master, leaves them alone in the house. Abrahamists seem like that. They are traumatized by the notion of being abandoned by their God, or facing up to the fact that he doesn’t even exist. What does a dog do without an owner, without a master? It becomes a desperate stray, plunged into misery.

Abrahamists, like good little dogs, love the idea of being constantly watched by their Lord and Master, because then they are never abandoned.

So many humans have dogs because they themselves have a dog psyche (and were probably dogs in their most immediate past life and still feel attached to dog life). Most humans are Pavlovian creatures, constantly being subjected to operant conditioning.

Would Jesus own a dog? Or does Jesus in fact have Christians as his dogs? Don’t feel abandoned, all you Christians. Your Lord and Master, your doggie savior is coming back! That’s the Second Coming … when your Owner will be back and you will be able to wag your tail and perform tricks from him. Ah, so much to look forward to. Maybe he’ll throw a blue frisbee for you to chase, good little doggies.

All Christian doggies respond to the evangelical dog whistle. They all have an acute smell for anything that threatens Christianity and then they bark at it and snap at it (troll it).

Why are humans so attached to pets? It’s because of cuteness. It’s because of the baby schema. Wikipedia says, "Cuteness is a subjective term describing a type of attractiveness commonly associated with youth and appearance, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz proposed the concept of baby schema (Kindchenschema), a set of facial and body features, that make a creature appear ‘cute’ and activate (‘release’) in others the motivation to care for it. Cuteness may be ascribed to people as well as things that are regarded as attractive or charming."

People love babylike things. Such things trigger their archetype for looking after human babies, and then they start treating animals as part of their own family. We have never once encountered a dog owner who did not regard their dog as more important than human beings they did not know. Isn’t that astounding? Human beings can literally regard their pets as of higher value than human beings. How fucked would a species have to be to end up like that? Humans engaged in enslaving other human beings are quite likely to own dogs and be fantastically loyal to them. Hitler, a mass murderer, had a German Shepherd called Blondi, gifted to him as a puppy by one of his henchmen (Martin Bormann). He loved his dog. He didn’t love many human beings.

Hitler is a typical dog owner. He would do anything for his dog. Just as he would put millions of human beings in deathcamps. The two go together in a rather alarming way.

People who don’t own dogs have far higher regard for humanity and its potential. To have pets is ipso facto to be misanthropic. You inevitably become more attached to your pets than to the human race. You place a higher value on them.

The Torah, Bible, and Koran are all essentially dog manuals for training elites how to control the credulous herd or dog pack. Dogs only respond to the carrot and stick, heaven and hell.

You would never teach mathematics, science and philosophy to dogs. Likewise, the holy texts of Abrahamism totally avoid mathematics, science and philosophy, and instead are all about examples of how to get dogs to obey their master, and be terrified of disobeying.

It’s remarkable how much money is lavished on pets while countless humans live in abject poverty. Even worse, many of the poorest people have pets.

Vagrants typically have dogs. There are two reasons for this: 1) they get extra benefits so that they can look after the dog, and 2) Dog lovers are much more likely to give money to a vagrant with a dog than a vagrant without a dog.

The Pet Question – why so many humans love the company of unconscious creatures with which they cannot communicate, and often hate the company of conscious humans with whom they can communicate – is one of the greatest unexplored topics in psychology. What need is it that these creatures satisfy? It seems to be all about the baby schema, a desire to have a permanent baby and to imagine that something is unconditionally dependent on them, unconditionally loves them, and never grows up to become an ungrateful teen.

Of course, pets can easily be lured away by the proper operant conditioning. You might imagine that your pets love you. They don’t. They love what you do for them, not you in yourself.

Cats are much more interesting than dogs because they are much less petlike. It’s easy to imagine cats leaving home and living on their own as part of nature. They have been much less removed from nature than dogs have. Dogs would have a terrible time in nature. They wouldn’t have a clue what to do. Would they be attacked and eaten by wolf packs?

Cats aren’t pack creatures. They can exist as solitaries, as lone hunters. No cat imagines it’s a human, whereas all dogs imagine they are part of the human pack (family) to which they are attached.

Thinking types are overwhelmingly least likely to have pets. Sensing types are extremely likely to have pets – something sensory with which to interact. Feeling types are extremely likely to have pets – something to unconditionally love and to imagine unconditionally loving them back. Intuitives are much more likely to have cats as pets rather than dogs. Christians and conservatives are much more likely to have dogs.

Do wolves regard dogs as bizarre cousins, ungrateful children, or filthy traitors that went over to the side of evil humans?!

Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, said, Did you ever stop to think that a dog is the only animal that doesn’t have to work for a living? A hen has to lay eggs, a cow has to give milk, and a canary has to sing. But a dog makes his living by giving you nothing but love.

A dog is the perfect love and lighter. It exists purely by lavishing its love on its master. It lives by love. If it didn’t give love to its owner and be an object of love for its owner, it wouldn’t last a minute. Love is a dog’s currency; love makes it valuable.

Carnegie wrote, When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Wouldn’t it be far better for humanity to evolve into something like Star Trek’s Vulcans? Yet that prospect is horrific to most people. Humanity is not a thinking, rational, logical species. It’s the opposite. It prides itself on its emotionalism, unreason and illogic. It loves mysticism, faith and empiricism. There is never any welcome for anyone promoting the message of reason and logic. Humanity feels no need for such a message. In fact, it’s a repellent message to the average human.

Imagine Planet Vulcan.