Daily Archives: 2012/05/14

I think I’ve just seen an image of what a food scare following a TEOTWAWKI event would look like. I air-dropped ONE salamander into six chickens and a rooster. They looked on in amazement for two seconds.

In the first second they were blinking in unbelief that they should have the joy this very morning to dine on such delicacies.

In the second second (sorry) they were deciding how to eat the salamander while killing each other.

In the third second there were chickens running on the wire walls, on the ceiling, a flurry of feathers and squawking that made me think that an exorcism might just be in order.

War lords with their warring factions were instantly the order of the day. Skirmishes, ambushes, battles. The one doing the air drop of food supplies (yours truly) backed away, afraid to get caught up in the take-no-prisoners scene before my eyes. None of them could swallow the beast whole, but none could take the time to put it down and dismember it. They were stealing it from each other’s beaks.

The question is, would I drop just one salamander among them the next time, watching the war lords become more powerful, but their entire ”country” become weaker through attrition, or would I make a bid for peace by dropping in so many salamanders, so much food, that low-paid, unarmed, government chicken workers would be sorting the food and storing food for distribution which no one — so very bored — would be in a hurry to get, since, in fact, the food would be so abundant. Thriving and multiplying… Hmmm… An economy which they could take control of and continue from there… There’s an idea, but only when things are totally, totally desperate.

Actually, my chickens enjoy a government of subsidiarity. I only feed them when things are desperate, like Joseph in Egypt. Otherwise, they are free to collect their own food in the forest. There are salamanders, spiders, snakes, frogs, snails, slugs, centipedes and the like for the taking. There’s no use giving them anything. Why would a government ever want to overstep what should be a limited role of subsidiarity?

I sure hope the SCOTUS makes the right decision about Obamacare in another month.