You niggas ever seen this etching?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sl...duces_Monstersit was on the cover the textbook for this ethics course I took once. Was a good course, I think more people should take ethics or read about it, even if you don't buy into any part of academic moral philosophy it's hard to argue that between the academy and the church the market on coherent ethical discourse hasn't been cornered. Anyway, I always thought this was a great cover. Like the obvious interpretation is like "be careful young blood, if you don't check yo six now and then you gonna get got" where "get got" means do something atrocious. But I think it's a good metaphor for the practice of ethics in general, the etching kinda captures what it feels like to engage with foundational issues in ethics. You're the nigga sitting there being like "shut the fuck up, I just wanna eat, drink, get my dick wet and die" but then you or some part of you or something be all like "no no no motherfucker, yall niggas don't get off that easily". Them owls be like "there be an existential issue here and ima peck on yo sleepy ass til you do something bout it". We educate our youth with these tools like logic and harass them into reading the classics and such and then dump them into a society where it's like "yeah, fuck that" and you spend your whole life jamming with yo otha niggas but these fucking owl cunts be like "dis some shameful shit right here son" and man it fucking blows.
It's also a metaphor for dissociatives. Like you take some drugs and them lay down and then some owls hop out yo back and be all like "yeee lil nigga, just rest, we gonna go fuck some shit uuuuuuppppp" except that sleeping nigga aint asleep or dead or whatever, he just be in lockup and you and the boys be runnin dem streets but then when OG reason gets back he be commin back wit a chopper and nigga yall feathery niggas best watch you ass except instead of like badass street justice there's just shame.
