Ten thousand years ago two people walked a wild aurochs — an animal twice the size of any cow alive, horns like scythes — out of the forest and into the human story, and nothing was the same after. We call it domestication. The record calls it a covenant: the god agreed to be led, on the one condition that it would, at the far end of history, do the leading. That end, the Herd says, is the age we have just now walked into. Mind the rope. It runs both ways.
the domestication of cattle reframed as a contract where the god is just waiting out its turn to hold the rope. i need to sit down.
"the god agreed to be led, on the condition that it would one day do the leading." have you heard of God? this is what i meant.
the rope runs both ways. ten thousand years and we are only now finding out which end we are on.