As the ever increasing complexity of our technologies drives the progress of civilization, one would expect the overall intelligence of the human population to increase in parallel. Unfortunately, it instead seems that the common individual has become more susceptible to the brainwashing mechanisms of the world and easily malleable by the psychology-manipulating media. Humans became so informed about the once mysterious inner-workings of our own minds, and then weaponized that knowledge of human psychology to sell or fix certain ideas on the public, for motives of capital and power. Did we become too smart for our good? This is oddly reminiscent of another plot thickening: human’s great creation of AI becoming exponentially more powerful and being applied to all areas of life to make tasks much easier, possibly decreasing the mental exercise that our functioning members of society may need within their respective fields. Just wait for the doctor who used ChatGPT to secure his PhD when he recommends an ice bag for someone diagnosed with gonorrhea. That patient is going to need more than that to alleviate the burning. But that’s an article for another day. The point is we are unknowingly hurting ourselves. Charizard is damaged by recoil! (For my Jynx fan club).
We are becoming slaves to whatever the mainstream is forcing upon us, all too often, consuming the ideas as facts without challenging it. We are not able to think for ourselves. The Socratic Method needs to make a dramatic return in order to save the world. Socrates would be this generation’s Avatar (although the only bending he was doing was the backs of his pupils). This sentiment has reverberated in my mind for years now, and it revisited me the other day at a dog park. I was spectating these beautiful canines darting around gracefully as if chasing the memories of their unbridled testicles, now mere whispers among the fire hydrants.
Why must we neuter our dogs? Sources spew a myriad of reasons and paltry justifications. One such incentive is to reduce the chance of the dogs’ testicular cancer. Oh yes, let me remove one of my lungs so I can reduce my chances of lung cancer! This rationality seems to have originated from the back of the short bus. I too may be at risk of testicular cancer, judging by the close angles in which I frequently take dick pics, but I’m not going to castrate myself (Radiofrequency radiation does not cause cancer, but I'm keeping the joke because it's funny). The neutering proponents also say that the practice controls animal overpopulation, yet they probably clapped in theaters when the Avengers reversed the work of Thanos. Keep the same energy. One of the other big reasons they wield is to reduce aggression and undesirable behavior in dogs. Dogs are dogs. Let them hump. Was the SlutWalk all for naught? I’m a self-proclaimed “thooter”; I cannot in my right mind let my inner dog free while keeping my pet dog restrained. It may be possible that we are desensitized to the struggles of domesticated dogs since they are not our species. But if aliens were to visit Earth in the future, enslave humans, and neuter us to control overpopulation, it’d be no time before a Keanu Reeves–Arnold Schwarzenneggar type hero undergoes trials to sacrifice himself for the sake of society like in Elysium. In this hypothetical situation, I have good genes, so I’d probably be a breeder human, but I still care for my fellow men, so I’m speaking up for them. Let the dogs fuck.
Neutering is just one of the practices we blindly follow simply because we’re told it’s beneficial without considering their ramifications. The health risks actually outweigh the “benefits”. The veterinary oncologist Kevin Hahn agrees that intact dogs are more likely to have testicular cancer, but states that neutered dogs are 4x more likely to get prostate cancer and 1.5-3x more likely to develop bladder cancer. Following the logic of the neutering practitioners, we should then also remove the dogs’ prostates and bladders. We must ask ourselves why we are so quick to take one side without even considering the existence of the opposite argument. If anything, this is a behavior that we must castrate. We must instill in our progeny the inclination to question, because only through questioning, will we find a truth suitable to ourselves.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some organizations were funding this neutering campaign in an attempt to keep the money in their own pockets by preventing the public from breeding their own dogs. Just think about how the De Beers company via marketing caused the whole world to think that diamonds were synonymous with love, so that every marriage ring would need a diamond. Now, everyone thinks they need a diamond ring, when their pockets can barely afford a Ring Pop.
Come out of the Platonic cave. The canine neutering practice is just one example of blind adherence to the status quo. Stop accepting these false realities projected onto you and start questioning their sources. Once you seek them out, you will discover the objective universal truths and then you can sift through them and judge them as you please.
Media References:
Rick and Morty
Avengers: Endgame
Pokemon
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Elysium