It’s the smell!

People do like dogs and we identify with them. To most it seems pretty obvious that dogs experience the same emotions we do.  Dogs get sad, and they cry. They get happy and they wag their tails. You understand what they want, even just from the way they look at you. A dog will show you when he/she is in pain. 

I have met people before, particularly some religious people who believe that animals don’t feel pain, and they don’t have a soul.  Any animal lover would have to question their level of emotional intelligence. I can just imagine the same kind of rationalization applied in other circumstances like war, where it’s convenient to believe that the enemy doesn’t feel, and is not a real human being.

Nevertheless, what I’m trying to establish is the connection between people and dogs, and that’s not very difficult since there seems to be evidence that dogs and humans have co-existed for at least 32,000 years!

We carry some of the same diseases and habits. People are like dogs.  Yet dogs seem to have some peculiar habits that just don’t have its equivalent in human behavior. Or do they?

I’m talking about one habit in particular. That is dogs sniffing each other’s behinds.

Actually, many of the habits that dogs have, are just dogs version of an equivalent human habit, like public butt sniffing. Dogs compulsively sniff each other’s behinds in public.

So what is the human equivalent of butt sniffing?

First of all, what does the butt represent? It represents your dirty and dark little secrets - and don’t people just love sniffing out other people’s dirty and dark little secrets! Particularly famous people.

Isn’t it just fantastic when another famous person’s sex tape is discovered? This is in fact the very same thing that brought Kim Kardashian to fame – and we have been sniffing her big butt ever since. A woman like that just has to be full of all kinds of scandals! Isn’t it such a nice stinky surprise?

How about Bill Clinton’s affairs? Mmmm.. I can still smell that!

People, just like dogs derive morbid fascination out of other people’s predicaments. It makes us feel better about our own lives. (And I thought I was the only one with a stinky little secret!)

The stinkiest secret human beings carry around isn’t that far from the butt. Sex is the suppressed and hidden secret, according to Freud. 
He said ‘Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses’ – meaning the hidden reason for philosophy and art or something... in fact I’m not exactly sure what Freud meant with that, but I know what he believed about sex. He believed that it was at the core of our nature. We have this idea that we humans have become civilized and rational over the last few centuries. 

Apparently, that’s just apparently. It is mostly a façade. Hidden underneath our veneer of rationality is a dirty little secret – a stinky one if you may. We are not what we think. Come along, let’s have a little sniff. It’s a dark little place, and once you go tumbling down the rabbit hole, you may never come back.

So, better than smelling your own asshola, rather check out another’s. If a rich and famous person could have a stinky secret, then I must be OK, right?

Relax! Just keep on smelling the news, the scandals and the stinky secrets revealed. We are just human after all. I’m sure we have been smelling each other’s traseros for thousands of years.  At least we could have some sympathy for the little doggies. They are not that absurd after all. Closer to home, they are our kindred little Freudian scapegoats of human nature – and they are so cute after all!