tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6329690968093140708..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Its horn more precious than goldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19835836994656704072015-05-15T01:25:57.364-07:002015-05-15T01:25:57.364-07:00I don't think it's just you, K.
Being th...I don't think it's just you, K. <br /><br />Being the last individuals of a vanishing species, and having experienced the persistent ferocity of a more powerful predator -- that is, homo necans, man the killer -- would seem a pretty sad-making thing, on the face of it.<br /><br />However when one sees photos of rhinos, as also of elephants, in company among others of their species, it's quite apparent that their social bonding and in particular their maternal instincts remain in place, even amid this tragedy, as the shades of evening come down -- their presence as wild creatures on the planet now to be numbered perhaps in months and years, not in millennia... though of course it took millennia for their magnificence as organisms to evolve.<br /><br />It was them, not us, who should have "inherited the earth". <br /><br />So it may be the sadness is a combination of their appearance of dejection with our terrible knowledge.<br /><br />But how does the sense of compassion/empathy we feel when we see endangered animals engage with the sense of privilege and entitlement, and the accompanying denial of compassion/empathy, which is an identifying feature of the new money elites?<br /><br />The haste of the world to fall on its knees before the sheer quantitative enormity of the consuming capacity of the Chinese economy, that grand babylonian tower built of sheer accumulation of units, would suggest that there is a readiness, a willingness, indeed an eagerness to write off all other species, large or small, cute and cuddly or no, the minute Chinese dollars walk into the market.<br /><br />Their "system" now seems nothing more than a grotesque elaboration of the capitalist model, reaching apogee and nadir in the same historical moment. <br /><br />The celestial double-happiness peak of the "human experiment", and the vicious malebolge pit of same, all wrapped into one.<br /><br />The treatment of animals says everything about the culture.<br /><br />Dogs are publicly bred as food animals, and, in open air street markets, burned alive in barbecue pits, watched by the gleeful customers who are about to consume them.<br /><br />To serve the high-end clientele, the Chinese elites, wild animal restaurants are now exfoliating, particularly in the border zone pleasure playgrounds, where the whoring, gaming, and endangered-species consumption, along with the common garden variety do-a-deal business, may all go on unimpeded, under the same uncaring sky.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73936399204808899962015-05-14T23:00:34.867-07:002015-05-14T23:00:34.867-07:00Is it me or do rhinos, like elephants, always seem...Is it me or do rhinos, like elephants, always seem sad, Tom? <br /><br />These pictures are sickening and so depressing. <br /><br />Over here people are falling over themselves now that the Chinese are (apparently) investing 43 bn dollars towards our bright and radiant future.<br /><br />Back in the old days there was a sort of poem/song that went:<br /><br />'China is our friend<br />China is our friend.<br />That is the Truth.<br />but: don't bring their system here'<br /><br />Think that still holds, whether the system is Commie or capitalist.<br /><br />billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18020074565203621702015-05-14T11:33:06.290-07:002015-05-14T11:33:06.290-07:00John Cale: Chinese Envoy (live, 1983)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5qbFfdlTDQ&spfreload=10" rel="nofollow">John Cale: Chinese Envoy (live, 1983)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com