Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

So i could talk about 'actual' wolves here. And how much i like them. Look at Yellowstone for example. Look at the undisputable benefit from releasing wolves back into the eco-system. Now imagine a 'Lewis & Clark' type system that the Yellowstone system could feed into. I'd like to see some wolves back in Michigan. I almost shit my pants when a friend told me he saw a bear up North. I thought...it wasn't busy eatin snowmobilers...odd. But that's a story for a different day.

But, Wolves don't specifically have anything to do with this posting. Instead, the title is referring to our inability to fight the cannibalistic machine. Especially, here in Detroit, we deal with alot of upper echelon backroom handshakes and tips of the hats. A sub-culture, if you will, of; the few big businesses willing to continue to exist within this flailing city of ours, the mega-property owners within this town vying for the suburban entertainment dollars, the city government playing mixed-roles with mixed bags trying to skim a few off the top just to keep basic services running (personal or public), and a notoriety driven ego component. The wolf becomes big money in big hands, fumbling with large quantities of investment dollars, for the satisfaction of its sociopathetic -'wolf-like' trait.

The wolves i'm talking about here are simply large invested interests in the city/ies. Their inability to come to terms with the other 2% invested interest has simply left them competing against each other for the same percentages on any given day. The players have changed over the years, but the same game exists. On some days, Poletown gets erased and a major Chyrsler Manufacturing Plant gets built, on others, Campus Martius pops up. But what they failed to realize, was that the 2% of the population was the other 98% of their food supply.

In some small respect, those percentages put the food supply into a fairly leveragable position. So, being a sheep, i feel pretty confident that the wolves will start acting like wolves, with a 'pack' mentality. As i said, I like wolves, we can't be afraid of them, we just need to establish the rules of the pack to them. It's simple, this is the geographic boundary we exist within, this is where people will tolerate us, these are the bounds of our family. We may eventually be able to even get along with other packs, but for now, let's simply leave an open invitation, and welcome them to the table.

Our territory is the single most important thing to both the sheep and the wolf.