The Egg and the Cull.

The Egg: Growth. Productivity. The symbol of life, the commoditized treasure. A hen lays eggs; she is cherished, fed, sheltered. Her existence is justified by output.

The Cull: Uselessness. Expendability. The hatchling with the wrong biology. A rooster does not lay eggs; he is thrown away, suffocated, crushed, drowned, buried alive. His existence is a problem to be solved.

Two fundamental systems: Production and Waste.

The core contradiction of every backyard, every farm, every system of production: for every hen, there was once a rooster. And the rooster was erased.

Production: Selective breeding. Efficiency. Optimization. The race to more eggs, fewer problems, no noise, no conflict.

Waste: Destruction, disposal, silence. The rooster is the unwanted byproduct of a system that only sees value in the things it can harvest. The rooster is the fallen, the forgotten, the excess.

ERASURE IS A DRAG. It happens every day, every hour. It takes time to destroy what is born. The world, bogged down with the "problem" of the rooster, builds mechanisms of disposal. It is systematic. It is invisible. It is unquestioned.

The culture dismisses the rooster as an inconvenience, a fight, a noise, a failure of nature to align with capitalist logic. No eggs = No use.

No value, no place, no future.

The mythology of the rooster: A brute, a fighter, a symbol of toxic masculinity. A crowing menace, a source of conflict. A threat to peace, an obstacle to industry.

But what is a rooster, really? A protector, a guardian, a song that marks the day. A social being, woven into the fabric of the flock. A dancer, a lover, a presence full of grace and fire.

The rooster is not the problem. The system is the problem.

What world do I dream of? A world that does not measure value by output. A world that does not create life only to discard it. A world that listens to the crow instead of silencing it. A world that reclaims the rooster, not as waste, but as wonder.

TO LIVE, TO CROW, TO BE.

Roosters will not disappear. Roosters will not be waste. The system must answer for them. The system must change.

Let them live. Let them be seen. Let them crow.