Slog - Comments on Democracy and Domestic Animals http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:18:20 -0800 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:43:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist 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.

]]> Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1046792 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1046792 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:48:25 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Fuck the liberty horses have -- I just wish I was hung like one.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1046830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1046830 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:54:43 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Which one do you want, Charles?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1046857 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1046857 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:58:23 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle 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 ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047022 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:26:54 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver the freedom to be eaten is not one of the first precepts I would ascribe to that ...

Depends what you mean by 'eaten'.

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047129 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047129 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:46:21 -0800 Comment by elswinger Since Charles posted this I imagine the family fucking the horses after they are done eating.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047294 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047294 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:30:26 -0800 Comment by Vince More Plato please.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047296 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:31:39 -0800 Comment by scary tyler moore is this the enumclaw horsefuckers annual picnic?

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047410 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:01:40 -0800 Comment by Wurm @1 FTW

you gotta change your name dude.... add a "B" in front of "Latent"

]]> Wurm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047518 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047518 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:49:35 -0800 Comment by Cookie W. Monster Like my main man George W. Clinton once said, "Freedom is free of the need to be free."

]]> Cookie W. Monster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047613 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:35:12 -0800 Comment by 98022 8: Actually, no, because they all moved away. Ask Charles where they are. He seems still fixated on the subject.

]]> 98022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047917 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_passage_and_the_image#c1047917 Visual Art Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:43:28 -0800