This photo broke my heart. The very identity of humanity is not that we procreate (animals can do that), not that we are smart and perform (computers can do that), not that we are at the top of the food chain and a successful species (so were the dinos),..no the essential identity of human life IS it's very humanity - that we can feel, and we can empathize with other creatures that can feel as well, because we have such complex awareness.
This photo illustrates how wrong all that can go. It shows how human beings can deny their humanity and treat animals as if they have no connection to them, as if we were aliens from another planet doing research and collected some monkeys, with no understanding of their basic needs. These monkeys are fearful, and utterly alone yet shoved all together, like chickens in a warehouse. What would motivate a person to do this?
It is times like this when I feel discouraged. Especially if someone posts that it's not a big deal. When we have lost our humanity, my god what is left? In that moment I wish for that ice age, or that asteroid, or that plague, which wipes out our species and allows the earth, (yet again) to try it again.
This photo illustrates how wrong all that can go. It shows how human beings can deny their humanity and treat animals as if they have no connection to them, as if we were aliens from another planet doing research and collected some monkeys, with no understanding of their basic needs. These monkeys are fearful, and utterly alone yet shoved all together, like chickens in a warehouse. What would motivate a person to do this?
It is times like this when I feel discouraged. Especially if someone posts that it's not a big deal. When we have lost our humanity, my god what is left? In that moment I wish for that ice age, or that asteroid, or that plague, which wipes out our species and allows the earth, (yet again) to try it again.