{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "(prometheus)=\n", "# Prometheus\n", " \n", "The **Rat Terrier**—a feisty little legend in a small, muscled package. This is no lapdog with delusions of grandeur; this is a true-blue, all-American working breed that earned its place by **earning its keep**—hunting, digging, chasing, and, yes, ratting.\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
History is a fractal unfolding of entropy and order, a ceaseless churn wherein civilizations rise on the back of extracted resources, only to collapse under the weight of their own complexity
\n", "The economic intelligence of nature: a visualization of dendritic structures, evoking parallels with neural networks, tree branches, and respiratory bronchioles.
\n", "\n", " You’re hugging your sister’s boyfriend. The dog sees it. Approaches. Intervenes. Tries to break the hug.\n", "\n", "What’s that?\n", "\n", "That’s **attachment protectiveness** mixed with a territorial, jealous impulse. The dog sees the boyfriend as its person. The hug is perceived as a challenge—an entanglement it doesn’t control. In its mind, it’s not \"joining a group hug.\" It’s saying: \n", "\n", "
\n", " — Yoda\n", "
\n", " Back up. That’s my human.\n", "\n", "This is deeply primal behavior. Dogs, especially terriers, are not egalitarian. They **assign hierarchy**, enforce roles, and often interpret sudden group intimacy as disruption. A Rat Terrier is like a tiny general with Napoleon syndrome. It doesn't want chaos—it wants **clarity of allegiance**. Hugs confuse that.\n", "\n", "But here’s the kicker: \n", "That same dog lets your sister into the circle, lets her feel safe. That’s not just behavior. That’s **narrative**. You just witnessed a **psycho-emotional diagram** drawn in fur and fang.\n", "\n", "So, what should you do next time? \n", "Don’t challenge, don’t fear, don’t rush the relationship. Let it *observe you respecting its alpha*—the boyfriend. Let it see you laugh, not lunge. And eventually, it might draw you into the story, too.\n", "\n", "Dogs like this aren’t warm and fuzzy. But once they accept you? \n", "**They’re loyal beyond logic.**\n", " \n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
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\n", "Knights-Move Thinking. But just bare with us as we align it with the rest of the content.
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