(“Just Violated?” Book Excerpt…)
“Training the Elephant.”
Supposedly, when elephants were used for such enterprises as circuses, they needed to train them. They would start with a baby elephant. They would tie its foot to a secure structure like a post. Anything that was strong enough so that the animal could not break free and escape.
Initially, the baby elephant would try, with everything in its being, to get freed from the post. It would never succeed, however.
Eventually, it stopped trying to break free.
By now, the animal is probably an adult. But “well-trained.”
It is at that point the trainer or the handler unties the elephant from the confining structure.
This would be the creature’s opportunity to get free.
But it doesn’t move.
It stays “tied.”
It no longer believes it can go anywhere. It believes that it can no longer be free.
The animal is broken and well-trained for purposes other than its own well-being…
