Post by ccgandrt on Jan 14, 2007 20:25:53 GMT -5
Much can be said about what man does to make a buck in this USA. There is a critical shortage of jobs and has been for the last six years. Some men keep trying and others give up looking. The male of the human species can be anything from an unskilled laborer, CEO or president of the country. If given the chance, they're all capable to do good or bad, no matter what their occupation is. Man is good at lying, stealing, murdering, being cruel or having power over the others.
Countless books have been written on the psychological, geographical, economical and social aspects of man. We conscious people know a good honest man from a butcher or a criminal. We know it is possible to make an honest living instead of planning our next decades of take overs, conversations or moves so we don't get caught. We know what jobs are apt to be honest and which ones lean towards corruption. You have the opportunity to succeed or sink to the pits.
I know on this planet man thinks he the superior being. However, he does things to animals that they would not do to each other. Man also does things within his own species that are horrible and intolerable. Torture and feeling superior must go hand in hand, one is never far from the other. If you hang around with wolves, soon you'll be howling like one.
I believe this, by an American poet Walt Whitman, puts things in to perspective for me:
I think I could turn and live with animals ,
they are so placid and self-contained
I stand and look at them long and long .
They do not sweat and whine about their condition ,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins ,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God ,
Not one is dissatisfied ,
not one is demented with the mania of owning things ,
Not one kneels to another ,
nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago ,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth .
(Image and poem from: www.geocities.com/marxist_lb/walt_whitman.htm)
And the short film, narrated by Alec Baldwin, "Meet Your Meat" at:
www.meat.org/index-1.asp?c=MYMblogad0107
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHB_NRIojho
See if you can look at another animal or president the same again.