{"id":18542,"date":"2021-10-10T06:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18542"},"modified":"2021-10-10T06:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:58:28","slug":"overnight-news-apprehending-the-motivation-of-rascally-rabbits-when-youve-just-figured-out-what-theyre-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18542\/overnight-news-apprehending-the-motivation-of-rascally-rabbits-when-youve-just-figured-out-what-theyre-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Apprehending the motivation of rascally rabbits \u2013 when you\u2019ve just figured out what they\u2019re\u00a0for."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWhat are rabbits for? Silly puppy. Rabbits are for\u00a0dinner.\u201d<\/p><\/div>So here’s the funny part about Cleo’s instincts and the palpably tabula rasa<\/em> state of her conscious awareness:<\/p>\n

Until this week, Miss Chioux did not know what rabbits are for.<\/em> That’s a funny way of saying things, since it puts telos<\/em> in the eye of the observer. Even so, Sun City being what it is, Cleo has seen thousands of bunnies in her life, but until one ran away from her, she didn’t know to hunt them.<\/p>\n

She sure does now. Every walk starts with a bunny hunt, and if she spots her prey, all near-term prospects of elimination are swapped out for the hunting frenzy. I am coming to be worried that she will never poop in that big block-walled back yard, so avidly will she be hunting for rascally rabbits.<\/p>\n

The empathy of her chase \u2013 the unerring way she had of predicting and capitalizing on the rabbit’s mistakes \u2013 has me rethinking her love for balls, too.<\/p>\n

Cleo doesn’t know that what makes the blue blanket snuggly is her own retained body heat. And she doesn’t know that her many toy balls move entirely on her own energy. But qua telos,<\/em> from her<\/em> point of view, the balls lack motivation \u2013 they are not alive \u2013 and so they are inherently less<\/em> predictable \u2013 to her<\/em> \u2013 than is live game.<\/p>\n

That’s just fun. Billiard-ball physics is duck soup to us \u2013 but running a rabbit to ground \u2013 not just the speed but the instant empathy and split-second decision-making \u2013 is completely impossible to over-thought-out human beings.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrea Widburg:<\/strong> Life in Seattle is about to get very interesting (and that\u2019s not good).<\/a><\/p>\n

Joel Kotkin:<\/strong> Even Elon Musk is leaving California behind.<\/a><\/p>\n

Clarice Feldman:<\/strong> Green Policies Return the World to Coal.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat are rabbits for? Silly puppy. Rabbits are for\u00a0dinner.\u201dSo here’s the funny part about Cleo’s instincts and the palpably tabula rasa state of her conscious awareness: Until this week, Miss Chioux did not know what rabbits are for. That’s a funny way of saying things, since it puts telos in the eye of the observer. 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