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Jaime Fradera Senior Member
since 2000-11-25
Posts 843Where no tyranny is tolerable |
Think what it might be like to be an animal? We could eat all the food we wanted free. because human beings would take care of that for us. and we wouldn't have to wear any clothes, just go around as Nature made us; so we would have no wash to do, other than the nice cute suits we arrived in. And we could just go wherever we wanted and humans would pick up after us. And we wouldn't have to pay rent, because humans would keep us in their houses free. Why, even cockroaches could live high in human houses free without the humans even being aware of it. We wouldn't have to worry about medical care because humans would take us to a vet for free. We could try to get a job, but why would any employer in their right mind want to hire an animal? We might be tempted to get married, but why would anyone in their right mind want to be married to an animal? Why do we have a discipline called animal husbandry? Is it about unsatisfied housewives learning how to muzzle their animals with leashes and halters and prods and harnesses and saddles and maybe whips and chains? That's why I will never marry an animal. Some humans put us in zoos so they can gauche at us and have their young throw us peanuts to eat-- as if we grew up eating peanuts in the wild. Some humans maltreat us. The practices in the human processing industry are terrible. They put chickens in little cages under spotlights Making them lay continuously 24-7, (without even the comfort of a single rooster to lay with) and then make the chickens eat scrambled eggs. They shoot cows with nasty hormones to make them fatten, and then make them eat hamburger, cheese burger, meatloaf, meatballs, butter, steak, and milk. The way humans transport us through the slaughter houses and grocery stores! They treat us like ... like ... like animals! To think of all the nasty stuff that humans are throwing Gaia. Gaia is not pleased with humans, and her patience is not endless. Midnitesun knows. Eh Midnitesun? it's just like George said: Proles and animals are free. Two eyes bad. No eyes badder This message was composed by an animal, the clever monkey that spent a million years typing Shakespear. Floating in the stratopause Southern Cross |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"just go around as Nature made us; so we would have no wash to do, other than the nice cute suits we arrived in" Laughing at this and wishing I did not have a stack of laundry waiting for me. Sigh, but in the end, I still prefer (most days) to be homo sapien. |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
interesting 'write'! "MidniteSun" mentioned: homo 'sapien'... Sadly, it seems to me that we are rather 'devolving' into homo 'nonsegacian' (non-reasoning/unwise 'man') these days (in America at least)...particularly at the 'marketplace of ideas and discourse' for (political) decision making; etc. What if Shakespeare WAS the 'clever monkey' typing Shakespeare?!... would that I could 'talk to the (other) animals'!! |
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