I’m going to tell you a true story. It genuinely is a true story, and interesting, however, it may also be an allegory for our times.
How does a sneaky predator try to kill and eat you?
Sneakily.
It tries to gently slide up to you and then strikes suddenly and tries to choke you to death. That’s what it does naturally. Of course, some of us are so foolish as to think such a natural predator might be a cute animal or make a fun pet, or can be played with because we are generally familiar with predators and are aware the dangers are usually exaggerated. Or perhaps, you just want to keep the python alive, which is a noble idea —at least as far as pythons go (the same is not noble or smart when it comes to the metaphorical pythons you may encounter in urban life)— and yet, also make the python safe for others by removing it to a place where it is not likely to eat small children or other innocents. So maybe you just want to pick it up to put in a bag for transport to a safer place.
And at such times, a small lapse in attention can result in you being quickly smothered by the sneaky snake, like say, a python, that you may have thought was perfectly safe to try and place in the bag, because you’re familiar with them, and besides you are surrounded by other people you know quite well and surely if anything happened they would intervene.
And then, it turns out the people you thought you knew well have a sudden “phobia” about snakes in general, or pythons in particular, or just are generally not made of the same stuff you are, and so panic, or get scared or simply decide, hey, it’s not my problem, and you’re now nicely wrapped up by a giant python that has decided you’re a tasty snack to eat. And despite your previous experience, you may suddenly find yourself in trouble and with no actual help forthcoming from anywhere. Pinned too hard to free yourself and the constriction continuing to increase, if you panic, are prone to try to be civilised about it, rely on the help of “friends” or the general “public”, you can rest assured that your not too distant future will be to be transformed into python and a giant python turd of the parts of you he couldn’t digest.
A natural fighter however, doesn’t think that way. A natural fighter uses that small grip he still has on the snake’s head to bring it close enough, yes, even closer than the constricting snake is already doing, and…
bites it in the head, breaking it’s skull open and wrecking its brain.
No hesitation, no worries, and no more python problems.
I hope this true story serves you as a good metaphor for certain situations that may occur in your life in the future.
A couple of hours after I posted the the screenshot below of some of my books on amazon, I received a rather flattering email from a loyal reader who wanted to let me know he got himself quite the Christmas haul for the start of his reading in 2024. He had previously read believe and RTCC but had given RTCC away to a friend and decided to get it again and realised he actually needed it too.
It’s email like his that make a writer’s day, because we know for every one that we receive there are probably a hundred others that feel similarly but never got round to writing to let us know, for the million reasons that affect and interrupt all of us daily.
He was kind enough to include a photograph of his purchases, which means he sort of beat me to the punch for showing you how gigantic NAZI MOON is. Enjoy.
Given the range of topics in non-fiction as well as the overall general theme of my science fiction to date, I’m pleased that over the years, the average rating for anything I wrote is pretty decent.
Thank you, to all my readers, both here and of my books.
Remember that ebooks you can have for cheaper than on Amazon and direct from my E-store, which in future will also be hosting more than just books.
The reality of what happened, and the why of it, might all be a lot closer to reality in my science fiction book (complete trilogy set) NAZI MOON. Available in paperback (it’s a massive doorstopper of a tome) or as an EBook.
How not to get strangled
I’m going to tell you a true story. It genuinely is a true story, and interesting, however, it may also be an allegory for our times.
How does a sneaky predator try to kill and eat you?
Sneakily.
It tries to gently slide up to you and then strikes suddenly and tries to choke you to death. That’s what it does naturally. Of course, some of us are so foolish as to think such a natural predator might be a cute animal or make a fun pet, or can be played with because we are generally familiar with predators and are aware the dangers are usually exaggerated. Or perhaps, you just want to keep the python alive, which is a noble idea —at least as far as pythons go (the same is not noble or smart when it comes to the metaphorical pythons you may encounter in urban life)— and yet, also make the python safe for others by removing it to a place where it is not likely to eat small children or other innocents. So maybe you just want to pick it up to put in a bag for transport to a safer place.
And at such times, a small lapse in attention can result in you being quickly smothered by the sneaky snake, like say, a python, that you may have thought was perfectly safe to try and place in the bag, because you’re familiar with them, and besides you are surrounded by other people you know quite well and surely if anything happened they would intervene.
And then, it turns out the people you thought you knew well have a sudden “phobia” about snakes in general, or pythons in particular, or just are generally not made of the same stuff you are, and so panic, or get scared or simply decide, hey, it’s not my problem, and you’re now nicely wrapped up by a giant python that has decided you’re a tasty snack to eat. And despite your previous experience, you may suddenly find yourself in trouble and with no actual help forthcoming from anywhere. Pinned too hard to free yourself and the constriction continuing to increase, if you panic, are prone to try to be civilised about it, rely on the help of “friends” or the general “public”, you can rest assured that your not too distant future will be to be transformed into python and a giant python turd of the parts of you he couldn’t digest.
A natural fighter however, doesn’t think that way. A natural fighter uses that small grip he still has on the snake’s head to bring it close enough, yes, even closer than the constricting snake is already doing, and…
bites it in the head, breaking it’s skull open and wrecking its brain.
No hesitation, no worries, and no more python problems.
I hope this true story serves you as a good metaphor for certain situations that may occur in your life in the future.
Happy New Year dad.
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By G | 31 December 2023 | Posted in Social Commentary