yes, of course I cringe at the thought of bombings, murders, deaths by any means, and I can hardly say that famous stalin joke "a single death is a tragedy, death of a million is statistics" is hilarious.
BUT there are certain pieces of information which blatantly point out the IRRATIONAL CRUELTY of people and they just sadden me to the bone. there u have it: a rare siberian tiger in a zoo in central china was beheaded and skinned in order to make some money on the black market.
she was anesthetized by her killers who otherwise could not have performed this, and she was one of the 530 of its kind in the wild.
even if not butchered by criminals, animals in bucharest zoo are killed by the personnel.
to me the whole idea of zoo is obsolete and cruel. even if located in china, bucharest, berlin, they are all sad places that bruise the imagination. i do want to see a kangaroo, i love them, but i don't want it to be restricted to a place which undoubtedly stinks and cannot replace its natural habitat.
since i don't stray from films analogies too much, one that touches on the obscurity of the zoo and its relation to human decay is "A Zed and Two Noughts" by the old man Peter Greenaway, a fountain of criticism which i admire.
1 comment:
indeed, right you are! :) presupun insa ca in final se va renunbta la ideea de zoo. asa cum zic eu ca se va demonstra ca all cancer is determined by viruses(ipoteza medicala personala).
(si da ai dreptate, mi-a insusit critica si am corectat)
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