Zoologies, 1982
Animals generally have the misfortune of being the ones to whom no one asks their opinion. There are many ways to measure progress (or progress), including the pessimistic view of denying the existence of the world u progress in the history of the planet. Progress can be defined by developments in technology, an increase in average life expectancy, a reduction in the number of wars or, as Baudelaire puts it, by “the reduction of the traces of original sin”. One of the measures of moral progress seems to me to be the increase on earth, or the decrease, in the number of living beings who are not asked for their opinion.
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Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt’s precise, cold and cruel eye forces us to see what the onlookers at the zoo perhaps forget to notice: that the animals in their enclosure constitute the great permanent exhibition of sadness.
Claude Roy
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