--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Robison
<miker_zspider@...> wrote:
>
> Brian Thornton on training otherwise tame pets to
kill
> for sport and butchering cattle:
>
> I've participated in the latter, and I have to
tell
> you, half the time the cattle didn't even know
they
> were dead. There's a reason that a group of
mindless
> people are frequently referred to collectively
as
> "cattle." Smart, they are not. They never
know
> what's coming to them, and they have a pretty
good
> life up to that point. More to the point it's
done
> humanely.
>
> *****************
> There are at least some subtle contradictions in
the
> cow and pit bull discussion. Pelecanos praises
the
> passive and harmless nature of his half breed
pit
> bull, while the very same nature in a cow is likely
to
> evoke disgust. So do we value this passivity
or
> despise it? The answer lies between the pages
of
> noir. Noir glorifies struggle, stripped of any
moral
> content, as a bare knuckle existential celebration
of
> life. Thus, the pit bull's easy ways are
only
> admirable in light of its propensity towards a
raging
> savagery. The lovable exterior is a thin
veneer
> masking a killer. The cow is so overwhelmingly
docile
> that it just don't get no respect. And when it
does
> erupt into a dangerous animal, such as in a
bullfight,
> it gets respect. So what on the surface appears to
be
> an admiration for a passive nature is deconstructed
to
> reveal a reverence for savagery.
>
> The above is my pomo interpretation of the
privileged
> passive binary over its agressive opposite. Hope
you
> had your hip boots on.
>
> miker
>
Man, as the Austin Lounge Lizards once sang "My ears can't
read the words your lips are writing."
The individual words appear to be English but be damned if
this makes sense to me.
Oh, I take that back. What the hell is a "pomo"? Is that an
English word? I recognize the other individual words of
"...my pomo interpretation of the privileged passive binary
over its agressive opposite" even though together they make
no sense whatsoever.
Maybe there's a "har, har" here that I am missing.
Richard Moore
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