When we go to the zoo, we are involved in a lie.
When I say this, I do not simply mean that we are complicit in the artificial world that is the zoo. I am not just talking about the sets.
I'm talking about a greater deception.
That deception has to do with the perspective we take at the zoo. We "go there to look at the animals." This is the deception. This is not true.
It's in the word "look." That's where the lie exists. Because no one uses their eyes at the zoo. Not their real eyes.
Oh, sure. The eyes on one's head will often make like they are looking. They make like it, but they ain't.
Something very much else is going on. You see—heh, see—our eyes shut off in the zoo. We aren't really actually seeing anything. We are imagining it. We imagine the animals at the zoo. The exhibits at the zoo. The other children at the zoo. The food at the zoo. All in our minds
The zoo n'existe pas, my friends. It is a sick fantasy. We walk into an empty park and build the entire thing from our imaginations.
And, really. Think about it. You should be ashamed of yourselves. We should be ashamed of ourselves. All those animal. In cages. Behind glass.
Sick, sick, sick.
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WILL RUN FOR MONEY.
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Wrote about Interrupture.
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1 comment:
Wow, I never thought of the zoo that way. We always really think that seeing is believing. I should rethink then. Nice pictures. very entertaining outrage about zoos. Its saddening that I really liked the monkey in my zoo, but he doesn't actually exist :) You sir, can blog. c'est formidable.
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