Cavemen and the folks over at the oh-so-modern PETA have one very big thing in common.  Cavemen lacked the invention of the actual wheel; PETA folks lack its cultural equivalent.

In the case of the cavemen, the wheel was absent simply because human society had not yet developed to the fine point whereby brains overcame brawn as the chief commodity among men.   The invention of the wheel did not occur, history tells us, until around 5000 BC in Sumeria.

In the case of the PETA (People for the Equitable Treatment of Animals), the cultural equivalent of the wheel is lacking simply because these folks have decided that all of the cultural advancements that preceded them, especially the last 2000 years, were fallaciously based upon the mind control of the Christian church.

Most of what we know, therefore, should be cast aside in favor of a new, more equitable culture that puts animals in their proper place right along side, and not subjugated to, people. It’s the Darwinian PC.

So, sadly these PETA followers must assume daily the arduous task of reinventing the cultural wheel.  They must discover what any person using either his own God-given common sense or his Catechism, already knows without having to waste his personal time on earth “rediscovering” that which mankind has acknowledged for eons.

The cultural equivalent of the wheel.  The wisdom received free from previous generations.

Now, dear reader, you may assume that I’m vastly exaggerating the day-to-day difficulties faced by a PETA cult member.  Rest assured, I am not.

I was reading one of their blogs recently, and happened upon an account of a devout PETA disciple.  It was an emotionally wrenching account of her personal agony over being forced by unusually harrowing circumstance to kill a mouse.  It was nearly impossible to even write about it, she wrote.  In fact, the whole reading of the tale of the dearly departed mouse and his gruesome fate at her own hands, was much like eavesdropping at the confessional.

And what was it that had caused this devout worshiper of animals’ humanity to bend to sin, and do in the helpless little mouse?  Why, the little critter was attempting to sleep in her bed, that’s all.

If this poor, guilt-ridden young woman had only made use of the cultural wheel, the little mouse would never have made it past the cheese in her kitchen, much less into her bed.

But alas, she had to go back to the cultural time of cavemen and rediscover the practical necessity of not endowing lower animals with the faculties of humans.  The saddest thing of all here is that this woman has probably yet to discover the other practicality in killing the mouse to protect her own health.  The fact that the little rodents carry all manner of diseases fatal to humans, has most likely not yet even entered her fuzzy little brain.

It’s oh so sad to see otherwise intelligent people acting so woefully stupid, all because they’ve been led to throw out the knowledge of millennia before them.

But there is an apparent awakening on the horizon as green fanatics and PETA folks take to gardening their own food supply.

Even the greenies and animal worshippers must eat, you know.  So, they’ve taken, in rather large numbers, to growing their own organic gardens and are coming face to face with the dilemma of crop-eating varmints that have been the scourge of gardeners and farmers from generation to generation.

Lettuce-devouring rabbits.  Tomato-feeding deer.  Squirrels, woodchucks, moles, groundhogs, et al are rampaging those greenie gardens from coast to coast.

And they are causing guilt-inducing killing rampages by otherwise cultural idiots.  Some of these folks are actually waking up and realizing that there were reasons why cultures developed.

One of those reasons was the ability to distinguish between animals and people.  Now, who would have imagined that?

Of course, not being willing to use more advanced methods of humane animal killing, these cultural idiots have taken to drowning squirrels in cages, beating porcupines with sledge hammers, and other more primitive methods.  Oh, and many of them talk to the animals they are about to kill about how dreadful they feel about the deed, demonstrating once again their utter backwardness.

Primitive behavior in a modern culture is viscerally repugnant, I think.

If this progress among the culturally challenged in PETA continues unabated, then perhaps by decade’s end we will begin to see these folks put as much care into people as they have put into their other crusades.

Ah, but the progress of these wheel-less unfortunates is very, very slow.

And all I can really do whenever I meet one face to face, is try not to laugh.