Speciesism
I can't pinpoint the time or moment when I thought there was something to the argument, so it was a kind of accumulative process. But once there was a tipping point... When you come out the other side intellectually, I'd almost say it's crippling. You're immediately confronted with a holocaust, that is occurring everywhere at all times and everybody you know; your loved ones and people you hate, everywhere, they're all participating in it.
And here I am, I'm just talking about it, I'm kind of somewhat impassionately just talking about it because I'm trying to relay my feelings about it. When really the only reasonable response to that realisation... to waking up to this world we live in, is a fucking explosion. That's the only reasonable response. Because this is something that's never happened before and it's so bad. How do you possibly talk about a holocaust that's happening everywhere, all the time, every day and everybody's included? How do you talk about that when it's just a laughable subject when you bring it up? When your friends and your family think it's cute when you've decided that you've taken an interest in the "animal issue". But you know, "I'm glad you've made your choice, please respect my choice" - How in the hell do you possibly go on in that world? How do you not see the world and everybody in it as dark and dangerous and irrational? How in the world do you not see your life, that you've lived up until that point when you've woken up as inexcusable?
- Alex Melonas Speciesism - the movie.
And here I am, I'm just talking about it, I'm kind of somewhat impassionately just talking about it because I'm trying to relay my feelings about it. When really the only reasonable response to that realisation... to waking up to this world we live in, is a fucking explosion. That's the only reasonable response. Because this is something that's never happened before and it's so bad. How do you possibly talk about a holocaust that's happening everywhere, all the time, every day and everybody's included? How do you talk about that when it's just a laughable subject when you bring it up? When your friends and your family think it's cute when you've decided that you've taken an interest in the "animal issue". But you know, "I'm glad you've made your choice, please respect my choice" - How in the hell do you possibly go on in that world? How do you not see the world and everybody in it as dark and dangerous and irrational? How in the world do you not see your life, that you've lived up until that point when you've woken up as inexcusable?
- Alex Melonas Speciesism - the movie.