Dixon's Paunch (Beaver)

[Terrance Flaherty]

How about that Buffon guy Dave Monroe mentioned? 

In proportion as man rises above a state of nature, the other animals
sink below that standard: Reduced to slavery, or treated as rebels, and
dispersed by force, their societies have vanished, their industry has
become barren, their arts have disappeared, each species has lost its
general qualities, and the whole have preserved only their individual
properties, matured, in some, by example, by imitation, and by
instruction; and, in others, by fear, and by the necessity of
perpetually watching over
their won safety. What views, what designs can be possessed by [21]
slaves without spirit, or exiles without power? compelled to fly, and to
exist in solitary manner, they can arrive at no improvement; they can
neither acquire nor transmit knowledge; but must continually languish in
calamity, and decay; they must perpetuate without multiplying; and, in a
word, they must lose by their duration more than they acquire by
experience.

        You're just a young kid. What are you doin' here? You oughta be
out in a
        convertible, why...bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver. What
are ya
        doin' here, for Christ's sake? What's funny about that? Jesus, I
mean, you
        guys do nothin' but complain about how you can't stand it in
this place
        here and then you haven't got the guts just to walk out!

Who are we working for?