He was raised by a community that revolves around reward and punishment. You either achieve badges for following the rules or get bad karma for breaking social rules.
That community Aesop grew up in was the catholic church. Badges where the accolades such as heaven for loyal service. Bad karma was the punishment for misbehaving or sinning.
Aesop Rock was himself a middle sibling, he has an older brother Chris and an younger brother Grahm.
As a youth he would always separate from the crowd and resort to his early writings.
Aesop believes that if you were to take fragments of his personality and add them to the population that everything would be horrible. He is too anti social to fit in with society and he realizes that he goes against everything those around him have come to represent and revolve around.
A manger or trough is a feeder of carved stone, wood, or metal construction used to hold food for animals.
The morel of this story is that people will often grudgingly prevent one another from getting something they need, even if that something is useless to them.
The dog could of easily slept anywhere else but the Ox only had one place to eat his straw.
The rest of the planets are going about their lives dealing with trivial matters as Pluto falls from grace. They are all established planets and don’t have to worry about that status like Pluto must. Being the smallest of the bunch, cold and alone on the outskirts of the galaxy, Pluto loses its status, but the other planets doesn’t seem to care.
Those poweful machines are pretty dangerous…
People are using war as a means to decorate maps with thumbtacks in order to keep track of the large war happening. They place them there also as a gold star or reward for this progress in that place. The whole map not only helps to follow the conflict as a whole but it serves as proof of their successes and how they will profit from them.
