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"Why would you want this?"

"Because."

"Just because?"

"Because I want..."

"What, to escape accountability? Responsibility? Animals have those things too."

"Leaving aside for a moment that human beings 'ARE' animals to begin with..."

"But that's not fair, is it? We're not as good as animals--is that how you see it?"

"Leaving aside that humans beings 'ARE' animals, I said--I would want to explore how they operate, to 'know' for sure that they are better than us."

"Got something against being the species you were born as? Traitor?"

"If I am a traitor, it is because I claimed a loyalty, not because one was sworn over me at birth. I am no traitor, for I don't--"

"--View us as human."

"Yes. Because of our birth.. because we were born differently, yes, but--"

"Because others preyed upon it."

"Yes, if humans prey upon one another, then what difference from being a prey animal?"

"I don't want to be prey."

"I don't want to be prey, either. I want to be a predator."

"Is it because you seek vindication?"

"Well, not really. Most of the people who were cruel to us did so in passing--they were stupid youngsters--though so were we, in our own right."

"Never should have let them see our vulnerabilities, is that what you mean to say?"

"Well, I just feel like, human living teaches human cruelty, and that can't be that far a stretch from animal cruelty."

"But humans are superior."

"Are they?"

"Isn't it implicit?"

"But that's the easy answer--implicit superiority. I want to know--I want to understand if animals are inferior. I want to be an animal."

"A fox, of course, that's so you."

"Indeed. Although an Ant might be interesting."

"A measly Ant?"

"Oh, just the thought that one organism has become the centerpiece of many. With the lesser forms being almost an extension of the queen's own being."

"It's almost like what this society is striving for, no? A self-perpetuating singular power, built upon that of others."

"Humans of low class will eventually be nothing but drones, is my fear. The pain is in the descent, into that state of domination."

"Could we even coordinate a system of that sort efficiently?"

"But that's just the thing--we don't. We are striving to catch up with the models nature has perfected."

"And this is your reasoning--behind wanting to transform? Please. You know your cause isn't that high."

"Well, no, I feel that, it's better to stand in a modest position, and look up, and state the reality of things that outweigh us in significance... not to pretend to it."

"And you feel this is what humans do?"

"... Implicitly. We are pretenders to a throne that animals long ago secured."

"And yet we are the dominant species!"

"Quite so--but inefficient, even in our dominance."

"What weight then, efficiency?"

"Survival. Look at us--we're so successful we're bloated and starved for it, all at once."

"Yet, even in that sense, do the strong not triumph over the weak?"

"Relatively speaking. The tricksters and crooks among us can buy a quick success at the cost of many--their fames, their fortunes and places of power--come at our expense."

"So you feel that these beings are not fit?"

"No. They are 'not'. They have bargained and begged and cheated their way into power, using human language--our greatest tool."

"So you think that because it's unfair, we are inferior to animals?"

"I think because it's detrimental to 'me', that I want to escape this model of adaptation."

"To escape being human..."

"To escape being oppressed by obfuscation--by misinformation. The progenitor is supposed to insure the strength of the next generation, not to cling to it for its own prolonged benefit."

"So you feel that humans cheat the natural order?"

"No, I feel that humans redefine it. Too quickly, perhaps. Nothing that ages quickly ages well."

"A refinement process, then?"

"One I want little to do with. I'll admit it, there's pain, and hate in my experiences with humans. That is why I don't approve of them. I don't like their style."

"Being a misfit bred into their society..."

"Being a person who chose this route."

"Then it'd decisive choosing--on your part; not a function of our upbringing?"

"I choose not to make excuses. I choose to abide by the old plan--nature's plan."

"Yet, that's not possible. You were born human."

"True, but if humans are able to derail nature--"

"--Are they?"

"It's certainly appearing to become that way. A few hundred years ago, the notion of cooling the air or converting the sun's light into energy would be viewed as magic."

"Isn't that simply a human perspective?"

"It feels like we are able to shape things, too quickly, and without creative intentions."

"We are animals then?"

"Handed tools we are destructively banging and flailing about our world with... like a bull in a china shop."

"So your position is that rather than refine our technology further--"

"We regress and wait. We slow down, and work to fit with the world we live in, rather than tear ourselves free of its 'restraints'."

"So your view is that, by living as an animal, you will be the poster-child for this kind of principle? Isn't that naive?"

"Our belief system is founded on fear. Fear of higher powers, and a dependence on their guidance. If we simply... regressed in our level of abstract thought; and accepted that things are permanently dead, and become part of other things, rather than being judged by the seat of some almighty god-being--"

"Then you think we would learn to respect, and properly use our gift, rather than weaponize and profiteer it."

"Foxes do not wage wars over the true nature of God; if there even is such a thing."

"So, coming back to your proposition--if humans are able to derail nature... then..."

"They must, implicitly, be able to define nature's rails. They simply have to choose to set them wisely; learn their proper foundation."

"You believe that we should play God?"

"I believe that we should dispense with the notion of God, and accept the responsibility that is solely our own. Or else, we cannot persist as self-aware, sapient creatures, without seeking to destroy one another for variances on this notion."

"So in other words, you think it's best to put aside the notion of the unseen, and to take charge of what is in sight."

"Yes. There are many things we could do for ourselves, by understanding the mechanics of what we are, and what we can be in regard to our surroundings. Maybe we could be peaceful, and innocuous creatures, for a time--restrict ourselves of hasty actions, and reduce our numbers without excessive mortality--but just for a time, so that we can determine a safer course."

"Put our bodies and minds in a more animal state--of lockdown. A Safe Mode?"

"It's preposterous science fiction, but so many notions start as just that. We must forcibly restrain ourselves from our most dangerous tools--those of complete annihilation of life, until we can properly appraise the fundamentals of life--its value, our value--and what potential we can make of it."

"And you feel the best way, is to become primitive again?"

"Well, I'm hardly a Luddite, or else I wouldn't be suggesting such an outlandish path to this goal."

"Back on a smaller scale though, you would choose not to have a hand in further harm of this world."

"Call it pacifistic if you must--I personally would prefer to be killing for the most binary and beneficial reason--live or die. Not for motives indecipherable by the victim of my actions--as an extension of the will of a less basic ideology."

"So you would admit that your desire to change is... ideology."

"Yes. I would call it Lutz Zooism--to be selfish, to show a desire to impact the notion on the minds of others. A desire to bring ideology and human goals back down to basic, primitive levels that can be thoroughly examined on a logical scale, rather than an abstract one. To follow the ideology of wild animals, through the functions we all demonstrate."

"Need. Hunger. Pain and Impulse. But what about empathy, or dare I ask--Love?"

"All concepts that require re-examination. We have come too far to destroy ourselves with a misunderstanding of the basics. Too far to assume that a Dog cannot be God, or perhaps that God is not merely the work of dogs, if you'll pardon the play on words. If there is a God, or a creator, even he requires understanding--surely a beneficent creator does not desire to obfuscate his nature to his creations."

"If it all must remain a mystery, you then assume God to be malignant?"

"Or a tool for the few to use against the many. Another fear. I believe that a fear-based ideology is an ideology that is being used as a human tool, to motivate for less than genuine causes."

"So the notion that 'God Works in Mysterious Ways'..."

"To me would be a human cop-out to evade a more pertinent, and earthly issue. For instance, the questioning of another human's power. Typically a sect of humans. One that is misusing human language, either deliberately or otherwise."

"So you would say enlightenment comes from below, not above."

"I think that all the knowledge and principles we can build start from the ground, and grow loftier and more detached the closer they reach the notion of Heaven--or what have you. The closer we believe we are to enlightenment, the less we choose to see standing right beneath our feet."

"Then you view the Fox as a god, of sorts?"

"I wouldn't blow it that far out of proportion. I revere animals, and especially one I've picked as a favorite--the red fox... I like the Christian concept of striving to be more like something one reveres."

"Hardly just a Christian concept."

"True, but if we're going to be bestowing animals messianic qualities, best to start from our roots. I have deep reverence for... well, qualities of the animal, that would probably not be qualities another person would think to revere."

"Such as?"

"Their limited sexual dimorphism, for one. How closely males and females resemble one another. It has always been a notion I've noticed--'fox' is a very androgynous word, connotative of beauty--at least in the English language. I would like to see a beauty that is shared between sexes, and that can be played toward either sex's strength. A bipartisan concept of attractiveness, that is willing to flirt in any number of directions, rather than it demanding the need to conform to one of two eternally seperate standards, lest we be castigated."

"Men with breasts, women with penises?"

"Not necessarily so crude a definition--but less castigation for resemblance of the opposite gender. You would think it would kindle less separation and enmity between and even among the sexes. I find it disheartening that we consider ourselves powerful, but allow ourselves to be limited by these basic and untackled notions anyway. What if I wanted to breastfeed, or to understand the pain and experience of being female--or male?, even, if I were a she? I think it's wrong to villainize that desire simply because it's unconventional."

"So androgyny, and bipartisanship of the sexes. What else?"

"Well, while I'm asking myself... what about an overhaul of our entire communication system, to interface with that of other species?"

"Whoa, slow down, Doolittle. Talk with animals?"

"Okay, maybe I put that a little bit too... adventurously. I feel that, like animals respect one another's territories in general, even between varying species--we could also learn to better appreciate how other species function, and learn to make space rather than take space."

"So we learn barking and butt-sniffing."

"I guess that'd be a crude way of putting it. Genuinely making animal lexicon part of our repertoire, and understanding it to the fullest we can."

"Rather than just burn and pillage them out of their habitats, and set a human language standard."

"What, you sound crazier than I do."

"Well, it's coming down to that, wouldn't you say?"

"Okay, now you really are sounding like me. The thing is, we basically have two ways we can approach non-human species; with reverence, or irreverence. The irreverent way threatens to have us underestimate or misinterpret the nature of other species: worshiping cows as the new forms of our dead, or misunderstanding dogs as cute when they are in fact territorial... tipping cows for the amusement, and collecting and giving pets as status symbols or careless, temporary gestures of affection. That sort of irreverence is misapplication of our language, applied in lieu of animal language."

"And the reverent way has us what, becoming animals, as you fantasize?"

"Well, accepting that we 'are' animals, with a different skill set from the majority. A really, really dangerous, skill set."

"So to protect others from ourselves, we should live among the other species for a time, as their own?"

"As scary as it sounds, I do mean that. We should become like the fox, so that we can better understand the fox. Insert whatever species of interest to humans you like. I'm not saying it's an instantaneous solution to all human problems-I'm just advocating understanding of the minds and behaviors of other life. Expanding our understanding through experience, rather than unfounded adage and superstition."

"And the best way to you for us to obtain this experience--is to integrate our flesh with theirs, our designs with theirs?"

"Maybe. I did mention this was a fetish, right?"

"Doesn't it say somewhere that all things are made to produce of their own seed, bla bla bla..."

"Yeah, preserving things as they are and have been, and 'should be'. But I feel like there's no respect in that principle without straying over the line at least a little for perspective."

"You want the mind or body parts of a fox, to know where you stand in regard to it."

"Yes. Do you judge me?"

"Yes. I am you."

"Then we must be judged by others, as well."

"Yeah. Some of them will think us crazy. After all, we think we're crazy, sometimes. We had this talk."

"Still, I want to feel what it's like to be a fox."

"And I want to know what it's like to not be a human anymore--to have crossed that line--to disprove it or blur it, or redefine it."

"I hope that humans can become a palette, for the paint of other species."

"I hope for a painting that is harmonious--one made of our own world, both in concept and in its whole."

...

"God myself likes to talk with me a lot. Good night!"

"Dear Lord, I don't listen to my own right-mind enough. Or was it my left... ah well. Good night."