Dead Bear Obsession Threatens Reality

T.S. Eliot wrote “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”  Four out of five people are obsessed with dead bears and see them everywhere. 

A friend, frozen with fear, sits silently in the dark outside of his garage as an 800 lb dead black bear walks past. A mother chased down a forest path and through a swamp by a dead mother bear and her cubs.  A child is terrified by a dead polar bear rising from a pool of chlorinated water.  And the turtles just watched.