{"id":54713,"date":"2025-01-29T04:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T04:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/john-perkins-a-tale-of-two-cats-one-castle-the-golden-rule\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T04:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T04:25:11","slug":"john-perkins-a-tale-of-two-cats-one-castle-the-golden-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=54713","title":{"rendered":"John Perkins | A Tale of Two Cats, One Castle, &#038; the Golden Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5e84efda60e4d00e0351db58\/1713214237061-86V8S1U9K7355KYL6AK0\/castle_opt3.jpg?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Two cats live with us \u2013 Jaggy, a beautiful four-year-old female, and Simon, a handsome two-year old male. Jaggy is the alpha and has never quite accepted Simon as the orphaned and adopted newcomer. They\u2019re both tabbies and have markings that suggest a common jaguar ancestor. Jaggy\u2019s snuggler-to-ferocious hunter temperament reinforces that suspicion. She demands to go outside and patrol the neighborhood. He\u2019s a stay-at-homer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">They both covet what they call \u201cthe castle,\u201d a four-level cat stand in my office. It was bought for Jaggy long before Simon\u2019s arrival \u2013 and now he has his own three-level one in another room \u2013 but of course the castle is always greener in the other cat\u2019s yard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019m sitting at my computer creating the long-awaited and much anticipated Great American Novel, when out of the corner of my eye I spy Simon as he creeps into the room and bounds to the top turret. Aware that Jaggy is in the house, I set my computer down and wait.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It takes but a few suspenseful moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Jaggy appears in the doorway, glaring and, like Yeats\u2019s \u201crough beast, its hour come round at last,\u00a0slouches towards\u201d the castle. Her alert ears are flat-topped, her fiery eyes undoubtedly filled with visions of an ancestor stalking giant crocodiles. Simon is totally unaware, foolishly relaxing, and staring through the window at Hot Nuts, a gray squirrel hard at work tearing up the daffodils in our garden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019m paralyzed with anticipation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Suddenly, sounding a fierce war cry, Jaggy leaps to the third-level turret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Simon jumps to his feet and stairs down at her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">She glares at him and swipes the air with a paw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He tries to appear unperturbed. \u201cDon\u2019t be silly,\u201d he says. \u201cYou know the Golden Rule.\u201d He rolls onto his back, exposing his most vulnerable parts. \u201cWe never hurt each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">She gives him a sullen look. \u201cOkay, but if you really wanted to \u2018do unto others\u2019 and all that, you\u2019d give me back my castle.\u201d\u00a0 She utters a low growl. \u201cIt is mine, after all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He rises onto his haunches, his eyes narrow. \u201cWhat about the idea that \u2018possession is nine tenths of the law\u2019?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Her paw reaches up and scratches air again. \u201cHistory kind of defies that, doesn\u2019t it? Just look at what happened to Native Americans and what\u2019s going on in the Middle East and Ukraine today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cHmmm. I hadn\u2019t thought about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWell, you should.\u201d She stretches, steps carefully from the castle to the nearby table, and sits, casually scratching her chin with a back paw. \u201cIf you don\u2019t think about it, you\u2019re like most of the world\u2019s misguided human leaders.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He lowers himself to his belly, leans over the edge of the top turret, and peers at her. \u201cYou mean. . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cI mean that humans seem pretty stupid.\u201d She lets her paw drop from her chin to the table. \u201cIf instead of constantly fighting, they did to each other what they would have done to them, they might not put the world in the predicament it\u2019s in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">He sits up and cocks his head. \u201cWhat\u2019s that got to do with us?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u00a0She throws him a Cheshire Cat grin. \u201cWe could serve as an example \u2013 right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cOh, all right.\u201d He jumps down to the floor and heads to the room with the other cat stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Jaggy watches him exit and then leaps to the top turret. She gives me a wink. \u201cThere\u2019s your Great American Novel.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two cats live with us \u2013 Jaggy, a beautiful four-year-old female, and Simon, a handsome two-year old male. Jaggy is the alpha and has never quite accepted Simon as the orphaned and adopted newcomer. They\u2019re both tabbies and have markings that suggest a common jaguar ancestor. Jaggy\u2019s snuggler-to-ferocious hunter temperament reinforces that suspicion. 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