Biomimicry

Form, Function, Fashion

History cannot overlook Roy Cohn and Steve Bannon. Both were educated men dancing on the edges of power and fame. Each had a devious mind. Each and together gave Donald John Trump the keys to his foul kingdom of corruption, coercion, control, and chaos.

Credit. Wikipedia, BiblioArchives. (Grey Owl feeding his beaver

Trump’s Toolbox

The principles of Bannon’s “flood the zone” mandate were volume and velocity. The strategy was to deploy a flurry of policy edicts sufficient to overwhelm understanding and rebuttal. Stephen Miller serves as deputy White House chief of staff for policy. He is a toxic person. For six horrific weeks, he has orchestrated and accelerated the Bannon Principle. It has proven nearly impossible to absorb, distinguish, and dismantle each assault on order and decency. For more discussion on this topic, see https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-flood-zone-strategy-explained-trump-policy-blitz-2027482.

Cohn famously tutored Trump on how to succeed in business by weaponizing the judicial system. The advice was to deny criminality, attack the accuser, deny the attack, then double down on pain caused by abuse of the judicial process by means of appeal actions at every level of censure and punishment. Somewhere in a well-deserved hell, Roy has got to be proud of his boy. Trump has added a refusal to comply with adverse judgements to his quiver of abuses.

Survival

We cannot eliminate the disastrous, self-serving actions of Donald John Trump as he has his dandy staff flip through the first 42 of the 100 pages of the Project 2025 playbook. We can understand our risk. We can devise protections.

Allegorical Applications

Plato is attributed for the thought that necessity is the mother of invention.

History and nature provide support for that notion. Regarding flood events and their control, the following:

Ancient Egyptians lived around the seasonal flooding of the mighty Nile. In other places and times, humans have constructed dams to control wild natural water drainage patterns. Over in the animal kingdom, beavers lead the way in creating a control strategy worth considering in principle.

Google AI helpfully advises: “Beavers build dams and lodges primarily to create a safe, protected environment to live in by creating a pond with deep water, which acts as a barrier against predators like wolves and bears, allowing them to access their lodge underwater and providing a place to store food for the winter months; essentially, the dam and lodge are a defensive strategy to protect themselves from threats on land.

“Key points about beaver dams and lodges:

· Predator protection:

The pond created by the dam makes it difficult for land predators to reach the beaver lodge, which typically has underwater entrances.

· Food storage:

Beavers store food like tree bark within their lodges for access during winter when food is scarce.

· Stable environment:

The pond provides a consistent water level, which is important for raising young beavers.

· Ecosystem impact:

Beaver dams can significantly alter an ecosystem by creating wetlands that benefit other wildlife like fish, frogs, and birds.”

Find additional information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver.

Biomimicry

Janine M. Benyus is an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author. After writing books on wildlife and animal behavior, she coined the term Biomimicry to describe intentional problem-solving design inspired by nature. Think of birds as inspiring the form used to chase the function of flight. Or a burr as the prototype for Velcro.

Necessary Action

I am not suggesting that We the People hie to the nearest body of water, chew bark off trees, gather twigs, and construct actual physical structures formed to function as stable and beneficial places of protection and reproduction.

I am pointing to our Trump 2.0 resistance allegorically as immediately necessary action. Each of We the People has the indivisible and historically potent Power of One. Each of We the People is a single and essential piece of innovative resistance to a clear and present danger. From the community effort of single actions will arise a place of safety and shelter for our audacious experiment in self-governance. When we persist and prevail, we will rival the humble and industrious beaver in converting an existential threat into a local advantage and global benefit.

Beware the Unexpected Predator

In our allegorical world, beavers were protecting themselves from historical predators. In America, these furry mammals almost were exterminated on the altar of human fashion trends—coats, boots, gloves, and top hats. We the People are well advised to stay alert for greater dangers than those with which we are familiar and immediately can perceive and counter. Not AI. Not aliens. Not a random comet. More like the rising power and reach of those pesky third world players. Something, like humans to beavers, that can repurpose our form and function.

Anthem

It is immediately urgent that We the People use our persons and our purses every day in every legal way to deny, delay, disassemble, and destroy implementation of Project 2025.

To persist.

To prevail.

So that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth on our watch.

Something Old. Something New. Something Borrowed. Something True

I enjoy Dan Rather’s “A Reason to Smile” gift every Sunday. I drown in awe and delight 5 out of 7 days a week when viewing Robert Hubbell’s signature astrophotography.

I initiated this Substack to talk myself and any like minds through the challenges of Project 2025 in fact and in consequences, intended and otherwise. In this, my 105^th posting, I begin to bring forward items of interest to my monkey mind that seem relevant to the discussion at hand. With my background in art and architecture, it is small wonder I find the following graphic describing a beaver lodge worth study. I hope it finds a happy home in your Sunday.

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