Angry - in its primitive but calculating way - the pigeon mind turned its relentless attention to a better way of destroying homo sapiens. It discovered a way of capturing weak humand minds through a form of hypnosis. Hundreds of pigeons would set upon a person, flying around him or her like a hurricane, and trigger a reaction deep in the reptilian core of the human brain. The person would enter the Limbo Stage, where he or she became subject to the pigeon hive mind's control.
Weeks before the last Passenger Pigeon, Martha, died in captivity in Cincinnati on September 1st 1914, the hive mind worked its magic on several European individuals - kings, kaisers, tsars and Gavrillo Princip, a member of the Serbian Black Hand. Princip's assassination of Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was the spark that set Europe aflame. World War One had begun. The pigeon mind's plan to destroy man was cunningly reliant on his most dangerous enemy - himself.
Twenty million humans were killed in the First World War, but ultimately the pigeon mind's plans were thwarted by man's technology - advanced enough to kill millions, but not yet billions. Other, similar, attempts followed. Stalin's Soviet Union obliterated millions of its own people, and everyone is familiar with the destruction wrought by Hitler's Germany and the other powers involved in the Second World War.
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