Hello, winter is coming.

That will be the subject of a future, frankly.

The reason I say it now is because I have a hat on

because it's freaking 33 degrees out here in northern Wisconsin.

Actually, Halloween is coming in three days.

Halloween was one of my favorite holidays as a young human because it gave

us freedom to express ourselves and novelty of seeing things and people and costumes that we

couldn't be in real life and because of the candy. You know, in this world of energy surplus, we look at our holidays,

which is basically novelty and gifts and candy. And I wonder sometime in the future if our

holidays will be tethered to natural solstices and events. Again, that's a topic for another day. What I want to talk today about is the

Jekyll and Hyde nature of our daily lives, as individual humans, as a culture, and as a

global species. So Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote a book about Jekyll and Hyde.

It's been popularized in movies and other themes.

And Dr. Jekyll was the impassionate observer, the kind human, the scientist, the planner,

the observer.

And Mr. Hyde was the atavistic, emotionally response, bad behavior, destructive character in the book.

So I came up with seven little categories

to represent this in our daily lives.

The first one is kind of personal.

I love animals.

I love wild animals, have my entire life,

and I love domesticated animals.

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