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So this next piece is a
contemporary rabbit story.

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Rabbit is our trickster--
like out here,

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a coyote's a trickster.

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I think you're familiar
with trickster,

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and they're always
running along the edge.

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They're kind of like the
penultimate human being.

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And I wonder, it seems like
tricksters running between--

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how do you reconcile?

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How do you find conflict
resolution between maybe one

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side that believes
all resources were

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given to them by their creator
for use and the world is dead.

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It's a scientific thing
that you can explain.

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And then, over here,
people who understand

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that the Earth is a living
being, and that there

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is a consciousness between all--

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how do you find a way there?

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In a world long before this one,
there was enough for everyone

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until somebody got out of line.

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We heard it was Rabbit.

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Fooling around with
clay in the wind,

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everybody was
tired of his tricks

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and no one would
play with him, and he

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was lonely in this world.

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So Rabbit thought
to make a person.

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And when he blew into the
mouth of that crude figure

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to see what would happen,
the clay man stood up.

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Rabbit showed the clay man
how to steal a chicken.

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The clay man obeyed.

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Then he showed him
how to steal corn.

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The clay man obeyed.

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Then he showed him how to
steal someone else's wife,

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and that clay man obeyed.

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Rabbit felt important
and powerful,

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and clay man felt
important and powerful.

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And once that clay man
started, he could not stop.

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Once he took those chickens,
he wanted all the chickens.

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Once he took that corn,
he wanted all the corn.

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And once he took that wife--
well, he wanted all the wives.

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He was insatiable.

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Then he had a taste of gold.

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He wanted all the gold.

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Soon, it was land or
anything else he could see.

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His wanting only
made him want more.

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Soon, it was countries,
then it was trade.

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The wanting infected the Earth.

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We lost track of the purpose
and meaning for life.

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We began to forget our
songs, our stories.

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We could no longer see
or hear our ancestors,

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or talk with each other
across the kitchen table.

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Forests were being
mowed down all

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over the world to make more.

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And Rabbit had no place to play.

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Rabbit's trick had backfired.

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Rabbit tried to call
the clay man back,

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but when that clay
man wouldn't listen,

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Rabbit realized he'd made
a clay man with no ears.

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