I admire the horse for its aesthetics, among other things. I personally find it a hard subject to capture artistically. That said, the central park issue does not bear on me personally, and yet I find it important in the greater picture. The relationship of human with horse as beast of burden goes back a very long way, much like the human relationship of labor exploit for the financial gain of the few. In many cases, I can believe that the horses life can be better for it, but surely not always. I do find it puzzling though, that society has come to a point where the horses and other animal welfare has been potentially elevated above that of ones fellow man in terms of condemning advantage taking. We live in a world where the majority are led to believe that the corporate investor is helping the employed while generally unspoken gain is extracted from the process. The relationship is portrayed and even accepted as advantageous to the employed when clearly the advantage goes to the investor who takes away more than they give. It should be hard to suggest that a horse is better off in a relationship as a subsistence based, beast of burden than it would be wild, or more importantly free. I believe that many horse owners love and care well for their animals, many expecting little or nothing in return. We know this would be an extremely rare, or in fact, highly unlikely case with humans who externally invest in businesses. There is simply an expectation of return and little if any concern for the quality of life of the business employee whose work creates it. Could we really have come to the point that the process of treating our fellow man as beast of burden for the gain of remote masters is more acceptable than expecting a well fed horse to pull a carriage? (recyclesculptor 2014)
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:17:51 +0000
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