But still it is beautiful

Very very lovely. :) Glad to see you doing more awesome things :D

*Applause*

Great work. :)

Like the striped flag.

That quote hit me hard, and the image is just haunting and amazing <3

Simply wonderful! I'm afraid I cannot elaborate on my feelings beyond that. But someone has said "Haunting" and I think that is most apt a description.

They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations


...on which we declare war. :/






Mark

I rememeber a curious fact comming up in a documentary once (I think it was either "The End of Poverty?" or "The Vision of Wangari Maathai", but I could be wrong): during the colonial era UK supposedly had a law, stating that "any land without an official form of governance belonged to the crown". How convenient to assume that... I think our relationship is similar to colonialism and slavery - an ongoing assumption that "any life form without a syntaxed language, a culture and opposable thumbs belongs to the man".

It seems to be difficult for many people to see the Other as just that -- the Other, a living creature with its own purposes (even if determined through biology instead of through will) -- and not a blank slate that we must automatically eat, exploit, or fear.

Yet by the same token, how often do we see our fellow humans through an equally distorting lens: not as people, but as objects we can use?

In a sense, the history of civilisation is the history of our attempts to incorporate more and more of the Other, and make it not-Other. There are ways in which we have done well, and ways in which we are still failing utterly.

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
-- Leo Tolstoy

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
-- William Greider

Hollow-eyed nations of ghosts, even now barely in a few rays of dim light, giving an eerie aura to a few scattered faces.

This is wonderful. Touching, deep, and fantastic work.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me still stay on FA. Thank you.

Love this. Fully agree with the message, of course.

One of my favorite quotes -- now with a wonderful illustration to accompany it.

I have loved this quote from the first time I heard it. And it is great to see it together with such a great picture. A wonderful piece of art.