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*PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema. PREFACE, p. xvii 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or, read/dwl entire book on blog: https://t.co/MfeUtXs3ze 6/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #PL🐒 #Planetmates 🐒 #PLPreface📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️#anthropology🐵 #devolution🐵 #evolution #revelation #apocalypse #Patriarchy 🧟‍♂️ #Civilization 🧟‍♂️ #birth 🐉 #Consciousness 💡 #Culture 🧟‍♂️ #perinatal 🐉 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 My friend, Sonjamarie Weems, provides an excellent example of how we — humans in general — misinterpret Nature’s ways looking through our cultural biases and filters. She says, "I remember watching this documentary where a mother elephant killed her baby, and through tears I was thinking that was the cruelest thing I had ever seen another animal do. Years later I watched the same documentary and had a different perspective, because I saw that the herd was starving and that the baby was sick. A pride of lions were already tailing the herd. The mother, knowing that the baby would die first, killed it to likely prevent the agonizing death that she knew was coming to it. It’s hard for us to understand how a mother could do that. Think of the movie Titanic ... who wasn’t upset with the 3rd class mother for putting her children to bed in a sinking ship? Makes you think." White man used to say Native Americans were savages because they would fight back ferociously in hand-to-hand combat. Indigenous people were depicted as “uncivilized” savages… PREFACE Page xvii

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*PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema. PREFACE, p. xvii 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or, read/dwl entire book on blog: https://t.co/9n7xMzYx1X 5/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #PL🐒 #Planetmates 🐒 #PLPreface📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️#anthropology🐵 #devolution🐵 #evolution #revelation #apocalypse #Patriarchy 🧟‍♂️ #Civilization 🧟‍♂️ #birth 🐉 #Consciousness 💡 #Culture 🧟‍♂️ #perinatal 🐉 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 PREFACE Page xvii …dominance rituals and displays — which have most often been used to support the idea of brutality in Nature — were ultimately found to have been distorted by the male researchers who did them. These primatologists were selective in their picking groups to study; they blew up the significance of the behaviors they witnessed; and they failed to mention behaviors that did not fit their conclusions. So their studies reflected more of the savagery in the human researchers than in the baboon planetmates. As for warring and mass killing, well, no planetmate is doing anything to end life on this planet like humans are at the moment. Nor are any supposed “dumb” animals engaging in world wars or killing off millions of each other for reasons of collective campaigns of aggression, racism, imperialism, sexism, or religious hatred, like we regularly do Finally: Have you ever heard of a planetmate other than humans who engage in torture? Essentially we see in the world of Nature only that which we want to see. And of what we do see, we distort its meaning to rationalize and justify our own worst behavior.

Michael Adzema

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*PLANETMATES: The Great Reveal* (2014) by Michael Adzema. PREFACE, p. xvi 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or, for audio: https://t.co/ei2tb5HakC 4/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #PL🐒 #Planetmates 🐒 #PLPreface📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️#anthropology🐵 #devolution🐵 #evolution #revelation #apocalypse #Patriarchy 🧟‍♂️ #Civilization 🧟‍♂️ #birth 🐉 #Consciousness 💡 #Culture 🧟‍♂️ #perinatal 🐉 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 For who do these activities harm? They are physically the equivalent of massaging. But since they do it in contrast to our cultural norms, we call these behaviors dishonorable. So who is not being honorable, really? That kind of being judgmental about all of Nature, and placing it and all of its millions of species below us and judging them according to our arbitrary cultural standards is what makes humans the ignoble ones. Relative to “dumb animals,” that kind of superior attitude, wrought of neurosis and cultural bias, I would contend also makes us the more moronic of planetmates. As for murder, yes, chimpanzees have been known, quite uncommonly, to murder. What is less passed along is that these are chimps who have lived in proximity to humans. These are not chimps in the wild. Take a look at the movies, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and/or Mighty Joe Young if you want to get an idea of why being around humans might instill murderous rage in an otherwise peaceable primate. While they are fiction, the reality is no less telling in regard to crazy-making humans. Even the early studies on baboons and their “aggression” in… PLANETMATES: THE GREAT REVEAL Page xvi

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