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Gangster Arrangment
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Alan Watts
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Now, this is a very strange thing you see, that it is partly true That the universe so far as its biological aspect is concerned Is this weird system that lives by everybody eating everybody else Only what we do to maintain what is called order and civilization Is that various species make agreement that they won't eat each other They'll cooperate and so be an enormous gang which can beat down the others So the human being is the most successful, so far, of this gangster arrangement We are the most predatory monsters on Earth And we have cooperated to assault the fish, and the vegetables, and the chickens, and the cows, and everything you see? Only we do it by not letting our left hand know what our right hand doeth. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, unless gentlemen happen to be prone to going hunting as a sport They don't see their food killed They don't see the slaughterhouse And so what you get in the butcher, in the market is steak, you know? It’s a thing in its own right, it has nothing to do with a cow Steak is a thing shaped thus and so, it looks as if it might be like a banana or something like that, you know and nobody worries And when a fish is served up, it does indeed look like a fish, but it's not the squigley and squirmy fish that comes out on the end of a fisherman's line You know, when you really fish you realize that the fish doesn't like it very much In this gangster arrangement We are the most predatory monsters on Earth So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat In this gangster arrangement In this gangster arrangement We are the most predatory monsters on Earth So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat In this gangster arrangement
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