tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924337662806017358.post742469345247335374..comments2024-01-10T13:42:42.889-05:00Comments on We're All Animals: Of Film Footage and AnimalsAndrew Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17522990678738683763noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924337662806017358.post-3278531577747775812013-05-02T06:01:04.273-04:002013-05-02T06:01:04.273-04:00You've accurately identified the two extreme p...You've accurately identified the two extreme points that we seem to be setting out for ourselves in recording our behavior toward Earthlings outside of ourselves. We can depict any horror inflicted on them if it is for fun but we can't show horrors inflicted on them if it is for purposes of objecting to or decrying those atrocities.<br /><br />If the stakes weren't so important and the misery weren't so real it would be funny. I really don't think anyone can look at it straight on and not recognize that it is crazy and sick. Publicly and officially sanctioned exhibitions of sickness...eerily reminiscent, I think, of the "Sickness Unto Death" touched upon in Kierkegaard's book. <br /><br />We seem to be trying to deny that we...all of us...are the children of Earth, a product of nature. Your blog title says it best, We're All Animals, but that truth seems to be repellant to many if not most of us. And these "laws" are our denial made real. It's as if we think that if we deny reality extremely enough or with enough force or persistence then reality will conform to our delusion(s).<br /><br />We're (we being us human animals) trying to deny truth (our kinship with all animals) by destroying them...somehow if we can treat our kin badly enough...or annihilate them...then that will somehow prove we aren't like them or that they aren't our relatives. <br /><br />The most awful and egregious behaviors are driven by the denial of reality and that is nowhere more apparent than in the implications of these two instances of "laws".<br /><br />This sickness has manifested itself again and again. It shows it's face in racist behaviors, in sexist behaviors and in anti-gay behaviors...on and on and on...and now in speciesist driven atrocity sanctioning. When we want so terribly to deny aspects of ourselves, woe be unto those who manifest clearly those aspects we attempt to deny. They will be the victims of the most vicious and ugly and destructive behaviors we have at our command. <br /><br />It is a struggle we have with ourselves and the tragedy is that the innocent are victimized and become "collateral damage". It is indeed a war, an internal civil war of our denial of our kinship with all animals, made manifest in our attack on the right to exist (unmolested) for those other animals. Even unto the point of what is legally sanctioned to be made visible about this war.<br /><br />Thank you for this post, Andrew.<br />veganelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188156008589356984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1924337662806017358.post-19033240131890149912013-05-02T04:57:39.505-04:002013-05-02T04:57:39.505-04:00I really want to see lots of pigs.
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