by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Readers, as someone with millions of readers worldwide I receive a good many comments and responses, some silly, some insightful, some profound. Today’s article is a response to a letter I just received from “Timmy” in Orleans, Massachusetts…. He has taken pen to paper (actually fingers to keyboard) to write thus: [...]
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Readers, as someone with millions of readers worldwide I receive a good many comments and responses, some silly, some insightful, some profound. Today’s article is a response to a letter I just received from “Timmy” in Orleans, Massachusetts…. He has taken pen to paper (actually fingers to keyboard) to write thus:
“Hello, Dr. Lant. I am 8 years old and care about our planet. The other day I saw an article in the Boston Globe about a 21-pound lobster which was caught in our town. I think that lobster, which was handed over to the New England Aquarium, should be freed. My father (who helped me with this message) told me to write to you being one of your fans. He says that you’ll have something sensible to say on the matter. I think the lobster should go free. What do you think?”
My response.
First of all, Timmy, I want to thank you, not just for writing me but for your concern about the future of our distressed planet Earth. You may know that I regularly write on that subject, for I too care deeply about our planetary home.
Second, I want to thank you for writing such a nice, clear message. Most people your age would have made that message unclear and muddled by using what we now call a text message, that is a message composed of abbreviations, symbols, and made-up letter and word formulations whose meaning is known only to the texter and follows no known standard.
I regard such messaging as an abomination and an attack on what is arguably the most important contribution we humans have made to our collective welfare, that is the gift of language. And more precisely the English language, now the language of all the educated people on Earth, people like you. Because of the importance of language, we must fight to sustain it… therefore I urge you to continue your correct usage and maintain the proper features of our sublime, lyric, supremely practical language. I say bully for you!
Finally, I want to say how good it is to see you working with your father on this project. As you probably know even better than I do, young people often see their ” ‘rents ” as nothing more than a convenient if irritating meal ticket… At school, at play, it is the usual, the fashionable thing to denigrate parents, deriding, belittling, everything said a put-down, the better to be thought “wicked cool.”
But this is not cool, wicked or otherwise. This, I know, is easier said than done; after all, I was eight year’s old once… as your father was. But keep this in mind: it’s always easier to criticize and get the cheap laugh than to be constructive. Your policy must be different because you’ve got brains and sensitivity. Aim at all times to “Honor Thy Parents”, even when they are bugging you the most. Remember, this is the first time in their lives they’ve had to master the important subject of — YOU. Your help in this endeavor at all times is necessary… and appreciated!
Now, we must get down to the business at hand… for this is a matter of life and death.
“Will you come and join the dance”?
The answer to your fine query, Master Tim, begins in rethinking the matter of lobsters, to understanding them and their place in the universe. Most people don’t do so; they see a lobster as a thing that goes from the sea into a scalding pot thence into a waiting and expectant stomach. But here, I assure you, they are short-sighted and ill-informed. We shall begin where these laggards leave off… with the fact lobsters love to dance… See for yourself. Go to any search engine. Look for the 1999 film version of “Alice in Wonderland”, based on the celebrated books by Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” (1871 ).
Knowing how much raw energy you have, you will want to learn all the steps to the intricate ‘Lobster Quadrille” as described by the Mock Turtle. You will see what most people have not only never seen but never even knew existed…an elaborate Court dance which even kings and princes did not disdain. You see, the lobsters we think are so slow moving and awkward seem so only because we see them in our environment, trapped, their claws bound, no vestige of dignity. They are then just so many pounds of boiled meat… and at such a distressful moment the agile and graceful figures of a quadrille are not of first importance.
Ah, but when they are free, in their own expansive home, how they enjoy themselves… leaping, cavorting, every movement practiced, perfected, the better to dazzle their rapt audience. And do please note this: it is the lobsters who are thrown highest in the figure… a matter of exacting perfection and precision done to these lyrics:
” ‘Will you walk a little faster?’ / Said a whiting to a snail/ ‘ There’s a porpoise close behind us / And he’s treading on my tail / See how eagerly the lobsters / And the turtles all advance / They are waiting on the shingle / Won’t you come and join the dance?’ ”
But they can only dance as they should if they are free, untrammeled, for the fact they are free gives them a zest and exuberance no captured creature can ever feel and always pines to have. On this basis alone, our giant crustacean, the master of many dances over his long strand of life (which locals estimate at 150 years), deserves the chance for 150 more. Thus, right from the moment he was caught near your home the good people of your neighborhood have paused before ending this life. This includes the gentleman who bid $3,400 to keep him alive, the money generously donated to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
He has lived, they remind each other, majestic and condescending, since the days of the American Civil War, going about his business with more peace and tranquility than we humans have gone about ours. He should be given life, not the cooking pot. He should be taken into the ice blue waters of our Massachusetts Bay and saluted as he slides into the waters of a world where he is a personage of grandeur and awe.
But, Tim, this doesn’t feel quite right either, and perhaps the lobster knows this. Surely, he wants freedom… every wild creature wants and deserves it, for their rights are ancient and fundamental. However, remember this, in the wild they live daily at risk, not least from humans less sensible and sensitive than we are. They will promptly kill, thereby ending all… only to be hungry again in just hours. Fortunately, the Solons at the New England Aquarium have a solution to this problem, which may suit the old fellow just fine and provide the respect he deserves.
Visiting Professor.
You see, we humans need the knowledge that is inherent in this lobster. His long life suggests a superiority of reproductive capacity, and so he is protected by state and federal laws. We need to know what he knows, and the best way to get it is by honoring his wisdom, making him as comfortable as possible, studying him the while.
Thus our lobster has already gained his own huge tank, a true think tank where he resides in amplitude. He must by law undergo a routine thirty day quarantine, and he does not object, for he wants his species healthy, too. During this time, he can be ogled and clearly seen, admired by humans who are naturally curious about a denizen come to us from places little known and vast. He is a time traveler, and we want to know more of what he’s seen and how he did it.
Thus, let him stay amongst us for a time, until he has told us all he can. Then release him to total freedom with all its risks and rewards, one of these being, of course, the quadrille which is his to dance as only he can do.
I hope this answer pleases you. And while our visiting professor resides among us at the New England Aquarium, be sure to visit and tell him what we advise. He will be glad to know he has a friend like you — and me.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today at http://www.Worldprofit.com
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by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Do you remember where you were July 20, 1969? It was one of the iconic dates in the history of our species. Like virtually everyone in the United States and world I was glued to the television, in my case in San Francisco. I was mesmerized by an [...]
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant
Author’s program note. Do you remember where you were July 20, 1969?
It was one of the iconic dates in the history of our species. Like virtually everyone
in the United States and world I was glued to the television, in my case in San Francisco.
I was mesmerized by an unfolding event that previously could only be imagined. I
was watching a representative of our species — an American man — walk on the
untrodden moon and make us all so proud, not least for the simplicity and universality
of his short remarks, a few words that will live forever:
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The bar I was in erupted into prolonged cheers as these words, crackling
through the distance, rained upon us like a benediction. First the words… then
mayhem. I shouted along with the entire world… hugged… kissed total strangers,
people I had never seen before and would never see again. All because one man,
seen clearly if imperfectly in the grainy pictures from on high, had done a thing every
infant can do… take a first step.
At the moment it happened, we were all drawn together. There was a sense of
profound joy, relief, and pride in our Great Republic and what it could do when it
focused on the project at hand, doing it right, doing it the can-do American way….
As a nation we needed this shot in the arm, we needed this re-affirmation, we
needed to be reminded there’s nothing we cannot do when we insist on doing it.
That day, the day we all remember like it happened yesterday, was many things –
a once-in-a lifetime thrill; a risky, even dangerous challenge successfully met;
essential confirmation that we were indeed a people of dexterity and destiny, but
above all we were still inhabitants of that shining City on a Hill, a people of vision,
of great goals set and great goals achieved. No wonder there were hugs and kisses
all round.
At the center of our jubilation about taming the moon was one decent, grounded
man, the kind of man-next-door we all knew and relied upon. And as we saw and
heard him at his essentiali work, we were glad in our souls that such a one was
treading the moon for all of us, for he was one of us, the best of us, the very
person we instinctively knew was so right for the work at hand. This was the true
importance and lasting legacy of Neil Armstrong, the right man at the right place at
the time we needed him.
How had this crucial serendipity happened?
America’s lunar perambulation (but not yet Armstrong’s part) was predictable from
4 October 1957. This was the fateful date of another iconic event, the day the Soviet
Union, the deadliest of our enemies, sent Earth’s first artificial satellite into orbit. The
result was mass terror, profound fear and a certainty that the Russkies were indeed
coming, were in fact already on their way, Sputnik I the precursor of American
subjugation and humiliation.
Like all my countrymen, like concerned peoples everywhere, I looked up that
perfect fall evening and saw… a future where everywhere around me, the verities
of our national life, its blessed contours, its fundamental certainties was all at risk,
my life no longer mine but waiting to be claimed by clever partisans of the Evil
Empire, our soon-to-be masters. No one who was not present that night can
understand this profound angst, despair, and horror at what we all knew was the
impending apocalypse.
We all vowed that this would not occur… and if it did that we, not the Russians,
would emerge victorious, whatever was required. We were not born to be second
rate, to fill second place… and the politicians who understood this and spoke to
and promised a great national revival were the ones who captured our attention,
our votes, and our admiration.
John F. Kennedy was such a man, and he recognized that sending a man to the
moon and bringing him safely home was the adamant symbol the world needed to
confirm America’s place at the top. Such a mission, dangerous, expensive,
unprecedented was just the tonic needed to repair and reinvigorate the body politic.
On May 25, 1961 before a Joint Session of Congress, Kennedy threw down the
gauntlet… we would go to the moon, no ifs, ands, or buts.
“Moon River”.
Just as the president was making this epochal announcement, this historic commitment
to lunar and planetary exploration, a song was sweeping the nation. It was “Moon River”
by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music). Sung by Audrey Hepburn in the film
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, it won the 1961 Academy Award for “Best Original Song.” It’s
lyrics might have been written for the new space program:
“Moon River, wider than a mile,/ I’m crossing you in style some day.”
Smart people, people with insight, realized Hepburn wasn’t just singing about a lazy
Southern river but, far more significant, the actual moon itself, “my huckleberry friend”.
And so Holly Golightly became an advocate of lunar lift-off. “Moon River and me.” But
who would lead the expedition, called Apollo 11, crossing the moon in style?
There was just a handful of men qualified to do so; one of them was Neil Armstrong,
naval aviator, aerospace engineer, a level-headed Ohio man who had, since joining the
NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962, moved up in the program, steadily, consistently, one
important reason why being the fact that he was liked by all, his ego firmly in control.
This was a very important factor in that hothouse of male egos called NASA. He was
the ultimate team player who made it clear to the powers that be, “wherever you’re
going I’m going your way.” It was a message heard loud and clear. Here was a man
who understood not only the complicated technical aspects but the fact that the lunar
mission was also and more importantly a signal to Americans that we were back on
top again while reassuring everyone else that our motives were generous, humane
and in no way threatening to them.
“The Eagle has landed.”
Thus on that day of our nation’s pride in July, 1969 it was Armstrong who commanded
the mission and thrilled an expectant world with the announcement they had landed…
followed about 6 hours and 30 minutes later with the words that ensured his place in
history… and our hearts. Inevitably honors were rained upon him and his crew, co-pilot
Buzz Aldrin and third astronaut Michael Collins. They deserved all of it.
Now Neil Armstrong is dead, his last important mission accomplished. That is the one
which commenced the minute he landed on Earth again after his famous walk-about. This
mission was doing nothing to tarnish, diminish or undermine what he and his colleagues
had achieved. Here again he did the necessary, being the perfect keeper of the flame and
a true hero, modest, unassuming, selfless; a man who was vividly and completely aware
of the great significance of his work, never needing to say so.
And so this son of Ohio lived out his days in Ohio and died in Ohio, at peace with himself,
his community, his professional colleagues, and his God who had, we know, shed His
grace on thee, the man whose single step on the moon signalled the giant leap for mankind.
Now the Eagle is ascending again, free to fly high and far. “There’s such a lot of world to see”,
and no one better to find it for the rest of us than Neil Armstrong, humanity’s guide into
the limitless Cosmos and its unequalled beauty and awe.
Musical Note. For the music to accompany this article, “Moon River,” go to any search
engine. Think of Neil Armstrong and all the star voyagers as you listen as you have never
listened before. The lyric words surely apply to them.
About the Author
Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc. at
www.worldprofit.com, providing a wide range of online services for
small and-home based businesses.
To see Dr. Lant’s blog go to www.jeffreylantarticles.com
Dr. Lant is happy to give all readers 50,000 free guaranteed
visitors for attending his live webcast today. Visit Worldprofit
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