As We Sleep The Whale Suffers
The ability of the human race to inflict immense suffering upon living beings is well documented. What is equally well documented is the ability of the human race to sleep through any age of reason. Then we may add a few more little things that the human race is expert at. Denial. Arrogance, lies and destruction.
With such an optimistic philosophy I can now move on to the absurd theatre of the secret talks on whaling. As we know the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is meeting behind closed doors in order to make agreements that demand secrecy. That is already enough to know that it stinks. By tomorrow we should really smell the fishy deeds.
Is it too much to expect that all these international experts can see just one or two basic facts?
First it is not the whaling itself. Whale hunting has been around for a very long time. All hunting has been around for a very long time. Without hunting the human race would have starved to death. What has not been around for a very long time is mass-hunting on a mass-commercial scale. Whale hunting on a mass-commercial scale should be banned.
Second the killing, the cruel slaughter, itself does not need to be so vile and utterly brutal. Savage slaughter of whales should be banned.
It is a shame that such simple points cannot be agreed. This shame is a mark of contemporary civilisation. This shame is also a mark of the total loss of the spiritual dimension for all living beings. We humans stink to high heaven.
Indeed we now reason again with chickens. You know those cheap chickens that we eat. We reason again with those cuddly furry animals that we torture and that we profit upon. Fur farms made by funny-farms of human sleepiness and cheap chickens suffering as they advertise the human race.
In terms of human needs related to the basic needs of survival and sustanance we do not need to be brutal. We do not need mass-commercial brutality either.
As one reporter said so clearly: ”... There are whaling sleeping giants out there...”
It used to be the case that Salvador Dali was called a surrealist artist. All that has gone now. Dali is the real thing.
There are whaling sleeping giants out there...
Steve Bowles
