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My blog, while usually poorly attended and maintained purely for my own egoistic pleasure, has been skewing towards thinking about animals--partly because I was asked to keep a record of my thought process while participating in an excellent class on animal suffering at UW.
I'm less interested in what's happening to me internally when I think about animals, partly because it's hard to make sense of what goes on in there and partly because I hate reading my emotional self-reflections. Ever gone back and read your old journals? They're cringeworthy, or at least mine are.
But I am interested in cataloguing my thoughts about animals in the media. I've thought of putting some effort into keeping a window open onto the things I do in academia, but in less academic terms, and I wonder if I can sustain a regular dialogue with media reactions to animal rights, welfare, and popular culture. Perhaps as I work this may grow into something useful.
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This is a space for the dialogues I have between the person I am, who lives in a world of media representation and the wafting smell of delicious cheeseburgers, and the person I aspire to be: consistent, compassionate, dedicated, and absurdly well-informed.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Gandhi
I love animals. Lots of people claim the same. But our statements about our fondness for them are loaded: we eat them, we abuse them, we gawk at them, we admire or fear them, we use them for their bodies or love them for their companionship. We are inconsistently ruthless.
I have high standards for myself, as well as high aspirations, and quite a lot of naggy guilt. I have a flair for the dramatic and two cat companions. I want to bring justice and tolerance into the world. I would also like a snack, please.
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