Re: Robert Frank on increasing needs

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Another issue of which there is not a word is that of the morality of
> such attitudes. Frank could have told his friends in Paris a George
> Bernard Shaw story: "A New York lady, for instance, having a nature of
> exquisite sensibility, orders an elegant rosewood and silver coffin,
> upholstered in pink satin, for her dead dog. It is made: and meanwhile a
> live child is prowling barefooted and hunger-stunted in the frozen
> gutter outside."

So you are saying that Canine Americans don't deserve respect after
they die? ;-)

[The US NPR show "Wait, Wait -- Don't Tell Me" reported that the
humane society wanted dogs to be called "Canine Americans." It turned
out to have been a joke. But often it seems that people have more
respect for dogs and cats than for people. In Britain, the society for
the protection of animals is a royal society, while the one for
children is of a less-prestigious sort. I don't know if this attitude
is exclusive to the rich, but it's likely.]
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ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it
arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict
with the powers that be." -- KM