AH & Animals

I said I wouldn’t comment for a while, but changed my mind. I think I’ll just try not to engage or get drawn in. What beautiful photos. I’d seen similar in a Hitler photo compendium a few years ago. I showed them to my cynical Tyrolean penpal who announced “he was a politician, it’s just publicity purposes” to which I had to reply “of course not.

How many politicians across time have been snapped doing this? I can’t think of any. These look like private photos. Squirrels, small birds or wild deer don’t come over to you all that easily.” I see the goodness to his touch, that noble quality. Like a kindly uncle to his friends, or young relations. Unlike humans, other animals don’t lie with their emotions.

Jeffrey Masson said as much. For the first time of anyone in history (as Savitri says, Asoka was not even fully sincere, much as with Hindus) he wanted to liberate their suffering… that he was thwarted in this goal is, to me, one of the greatest tragedies of a tragic war. How many animals died in the firebombing, or were obliterated under allied shellfire and the wanton destruction of Germany? I haven’t researched that point. It’s the one reason I dread other welcomed nuclear strikes on these wretched countries.