Visual Art Democracy and Domestic Animals
posted by on June 11 at 12:18 PM
Meeting by accident this seemingly mundane image a moment ago…
…directed my thoughts to a passage that appears in the late pages of Plato’s Republic:
You would never believe — unless you had seen it for yourself—how much more liberty the domestic animals have in a democracy. The dog comes to resemble its mistress, as the proverb has it, and the same is true of horses and donkeys as well. They are in the habit of walking about the streets with a grand freedom, and bump into people they meet if they don’t get out of their way. Everything is full of this spirit of liberty.
I sure hope none of the people in the picture are farmers, because that would make them stupid, or from Oklahoma, because that horse might have a "blind spot" that could result in the horse running over a loved "sibling" who might be an adopted minority. And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
Fuck the liberty horses have -- I just wish I was hung like one.
Which one do you want, Charles?
South Korea's a democracy.
They eat dogs there.
You have strange ideas of "liberty" - the freedom to be eaten is not one of the first precepts I would ascribe to that ...
the freedom to be eaten is not one of the first precepts I would ascribe to that ...
Depends what you mean by 'eaten'.
Since Charles posted this I imagine the family fucking the horses after they are done eating.
More Plato please.
is this the enumclaw horsefuckers annual picnic?
@1 FTW
you gotta change your name dude.... add a "B" in front of "Latent"
Like my main man George W. Clinton once said, "Freedom is free of the need to be free."
8: Actually, no, because they all moved away. Ask Charles where they are. He seems still fixated on the subject.
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