I would love to get your thoughts (or anyone else's) on a Social Experiment:
Take a rat who has lived 73 percent of his life expectancy.
He lives in an incredibly supportive and loving family dynamic.
He shows a history of enjoying good and engaging conversation with rats of all ages. Full disclosure: much of his time has been spent visiting other cages of those whose vocation is to be engaged in other hurting rat populations.
Extract him from this present environment of engagement for ten hours per day and insert him into a work that is much more physically and mentally demanding... alike to what the human world calls Blue Collar. His interaction with other rats is greatly reduced but not extracted completely. Also, no limitations have been placed on his abilities or desires.
Leave open for interpretation the following:
Elimination of his regular workout regimen.
Elevation of need for sleep.
Removal of possibility for play except for days off from work.
Reduction of his regular conversational connection (what he might call Being Current) with his wife by 80 percent.
Other considerations:
He still eats Special K with Almond Milk each morning for breakfast.
His blogging continues because of a commitment he made on February 13th.
Social Experiment time limit: Undecided and left to forces outside our control.
