First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.
Friday, August 29, 2014
"WE ARE MOVING MEAT"
A. L. Kennedy, On Bullfighting (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 1999) ("I believe that human beings are animals. By this, I mean that humanity does not prosper and, indeed, endangers its long-term survival by forgetting that it is reliant upon, and connected to, the animal world. Our fundamentals are 'animal' -- we eat, we defecate, we procreate, we die -- we are moving meat." "I do not mean by this that we can excuse our excesses of inhumanity by tracing their roots back to 'animal' behaviour." Id. at 83.).