The Roots Of Our Soccer Tribe Lie

We Never Stop Investigating. We Are Never Satisfied That We Know Enough To Get By. Every Question We Answer Leads On To Another Question. This Has Become The Greatest Survival Trick Of Our Species.

It Must Be Stressed That There Is Nothing Insulting About Looking At People As Animals. We Are Animals, After All. Homo Sapiens Is A Species Of Primate, A Biological Phenomenon Dominated By Biological Rules, Like Any Other Species. Human Nature Is No More Than One Particular Kind Of Animal Nature. Agreed, The Human Species Is An Extraordinary Animal; But All Other Species Are Also Extraordinary Animals, Each In Their Own Way, And The Scientific Man-watcher Can Bring Many Fresh Insights To The Study Of Human Affairs If He Can Retain This Basic Attitude Of Evolutionary Humility.

Aquatic Animals Suffer From The Disadvantage That They Cannot Scream When In Pain, So We Find It Hard To Gauge The Degree Of Their Agony. If Fish Could Scream, Angling Purely For Sport Would Be Outlawed Without Delay.

The Idea That It Is Funny To See Wild Animals Coerced Into Acting Like Clumsy Humans, Or Thrilling To See Powerful Beasts Reduced To Cringing Cowards By A Whip-cracking Trainer, Is Primitive And Medieval. It Stems From The Old Idea That We Are Superior To Other Species And Have The Right To Hold Dominion Over Them.

Monks, Nuns, Long-term Spinsters And Bachelors And Permanent Homosexuals Are All, In A Reproductive Sense, Aberrant. Society Has Bred Them, But They Have Failed To Return The Compliment.