This video is reflective across so many aspects of the way humans live and treat one another.
Lions run down and devour young antelope all the time - but lions are animals. Humans are also animals but with much greater capacity of destruction and violence. At least lions don't stalk and kill one another.
Economic violence is just as reprehensible. Hoarding of wealth and power by a small few while millions starve is not far from picking up a board and knocking someone senseless - or dead.
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Date: 2009-09-28 09:07 pm (UTC)From:So sad.
I think DEVO had it right. Our society is undergoing de-evolution.
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Date: 2009-09-28 11:38 pm (UTC)From:Lions run down and devour young antelope all the time - but lions are animals. Humans are also animals but with much greater capacity of destruction and violence. At least lions don't stalk and kill one another.
Economic violence is just as reprehensible. Hoarding of wealth and power by a small few while millions starve is not far from picking up a board and knocking someone senseless - or dead.
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Date: 2009-09-30 07:46 am (UTC)From:Ants carry on wars.
Chickens can turn cannibalistic pretty unexpectedly.
Some fish will actually eat their own offspring.
I'm afraid the only way we're unique is, as you point out, our capacity for destruction...and perhaps our ability to reflect on the wrongness of it.