Reply #104: agreed

[mondo obscurius]

This is another glimpse of the naked face of the soul-destroying Amerikan dominator culture. It's clear we have nothing left to defend but our greed, hubris and brutishness.

Coincidently, I was in a coffee shop the other night quietly reading and minding my own business when a guy in his early twenties at a nearby table started bragging loudly to two young women about how he had tortured and tormented a cat, chuckling and snorting as he described the anguish of the poor creature. The two girls listened with glazed smiles on their bovine faces as he went on...and on...and on...and on.

Finally I couldn't take it any more. I got up, went over to the table, leaned in close to the big sadistic bastard's face and told him if he didn't shut the f'k up I'd drag him out into the back alley, kick the shit out of him and make him eat it one piece at a time until the paramedics came. Yeah. I was agry and make no apologies for what I did. Talking his language seemed to work though. The three of them left the cafe shortly after. But I spent the next couple of hours calming down from the adrenline and feeling such disgust, trying to get the image out of my mind of the agony this cruel, impotent weakling had inflicted on the innocent cat. Damn.

I've been close to animals all my life and have known them to have far more dignity, instinctive intelligence and soul than most humans I've known. This is heart breaking and brings back the feeling of the other night to me all over again. Sometimes lately I think humanity is a failed evolutionary pathway. Seriously, what's the point? When does all this ugliness and cruelty end?
:cry:
mo