Chicken Vision
Thanks to stress biology, we can find ourselves craving worldly success to the point of doing anything to get it. Stress is the biggest slave driver and taskmaster in the business, and sees no point in humbleness. Instead, it can have us fuss over rank and privilege, and covet that totem of status chasing, THE CHICKEN. Hence our passion for pecking orders - up which we might find ourselves climbing in a great rush. By contrast, treasures like joy and wisdom might come to seem of no real consequence.
Ruling the roost might secure us loads of loot. Yet why not salute President Lincoln, who fought slavery nail and tooth, and saw humanity as an absolute. Sometimes, moments of truth break through, like when it was spoken out bold and true that all men are created equal (United States Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776). Words that good don’t get computed by the stress-fooled head: they’re known in that font of true intelligence, the head and heart joined in union.
To be honest, the notion that any of us are worth any more or less than the rest of us is a fiction we do best to forget. Nevertheless, the “chicken delusion” rates us like we’re game show contestants wrapped in compulsive desire’s
rose-tint hues, with glowing approval reserved for its chosen few, and the rest of us left to scrap for the wooden spoon.