freewrite
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Carpet of crushed bugs. Okay, when I first read that, I read "carpet of crushed dogs" which is a very different image. Can you imagine if we thought of bugs like we think of dogs? I wonder, sometimes, about how we think of ourselves, we humans. How we separate ourselves from other living beings, how high we place ourselves in a hierarchy. But is it a completely false hierarchy? We have superior intelligence, okay, but do we really? Or do we just not really understand "intelligence"? I have these mixed feelings..I can get free tickets to the zoo, and I would like to go. I like looking at the different animals, I like the park-like atmosphere of the zoo, I like to be outdoors on well-landscaped paths. But I also have this feeling that zoos will be something that, in the future, humanity will be horrified ever existed. That humanity will be horrified that we confined other living beings like that. So how can I have that feeling and still want to go to the zoo? It's like how I used to be vegan, because I believed that animals are treated horribly in both the meat and dairy industries and I didn't want any part in it. But now I'm just a vegetarian, and I eat eggs and cheese and drink cream. But I'm not convinced now that animals are well-treated in the dairy industry, or the egg industry. So isn't that shitty of me?