Pity for the chicken
Its again one of those days when i have again started to wander deep into the "human psyche" jungle. 2 things have pushed me to write this entry, first, i saw a HEN getting murdered yesterday. Yeah, i did pay for the hit job, but thats another thing. Secondly, i watched "I am legend" for the second time. What do these things have in common, you ask. Nothing much outwardly. But i tried placing myself in the 2 situations in slightly altered roles. I imagined myself as the hen in the first case and as the vampire things in the second. Odd thought process, i know but i couldnt help thinking so. I went to the butchers shop yesterday and just like most times, i ordered for a kilo of chicken. I have always watched with no emotion watsoever when a hen would be taken out of a cage of similar ones, its neck severed and finally, cut into pieces which comes out nice when cooked. I normally dont pay attention to the process, let alone feel any emotion. But yesterday was different. I watched the creatures, puck-pucking their entire day in that cramped cage awaiting the inevitable. Do they even feel anything, fear, happiness etc. They must be but these emotions would be limited compared to what we bigger animals feel. But even then looking into their eyes, i felt odd, like we are the invincible predators and accordingly we should be more feared than anything they would have encountered in their natural lives. But yet they seem so calm.Just imagine having to eat bird seed all day. shitting all around the cage and finally, ending up in the stomach of another creature. YUCK.I normally dont think this way, but watching the movie got the wheels turning. In the movie, the condition of humans is the same as the one the hen was in. Will smith in the movie,in the current context, is what i call the intelligent chicken. He knows he is gonna die someday and is fearful of it, but hopes on that he will live long enough to find a cure. He feels that the vamps are a group of unintelligent, unsocialised and stupid THINGS. But he gets proven otherwise on a lot of occassions. The humans felt that the vamps had a brain similar to the one the hens have. If the CHICKEN would turn murderous, it would probably have done the same thing.But since the vamps did prove otherise, so can the chicken. So what are they thinking when we cage them and butcher them, do they think like the humans in the movie does. If they do, can we expect them to find a way to get rid of us.Oh boy, now i have gone really far. But honestly speaking, i feel really good and at the same time, very fearful of the fact that we are still at the top of the foodchain and hope to god, some such virus never dethrones us from that formidable position. Still, I pity the chicken, but umm, mama's chicken stew does taste good. To hell with morality, let the army of chicken come.