Michael Collins – Unleashed

The dog unleashed narrowly avoided being run over …. dead as a doornail … by the truck which was, as coincidence would have it, from the local dog pound. The driver was later quoted as saying: “I used to be a much better driver in my younger days…that dog was lucky.” Then he winked, smiled, and nodded his head, making it clear what his actual intentions were.

Anyway…that’s enough about that. Generally, I believe, being ‘unleashed’ is a really good thing to be: especially when those who put us on a leash, so to speak, are quite unsavoury people. Sometimes parents, friends, and relations. More often employers, politicians, police, and minor bureaucrats…etc.. So if being unleashed is ‘good’…why so? Well, it means one gets to do great stuff like commit crimes against humanity, for example…or bash up pensioners on pension day…the list is endless…In such cases, I suppose, there may be an argument for being ‘leashed’. If that is a word… and I do not see why it should not be.

So…. ‘leashed’. In a societal contract who does the ‘leashing’… all of the previously aforesaid mentioned, actually. The assumption can be validly made, therefore that if someone in a state of unleashment wreaks havoc on society and the world as we know it, it is the fault of the above mentioned aforesaid, as they failed in their moral responsibilities to be good and capable ‘leashers’ in their leashment. More can be discussed regarding the complexities and internal contradictions of this argument… But take my word for it… I’m right.