I subscribe to a channel called “Mr. Ballen” on Youtube where he basically narrates stories that are often horrific and relating to murder, rape, torture, etc.
But today he posted a video that was about a circus animal in the early 1900s that killed its handler, and was subsequently put down in a public fashion (hanged)… and people in the comments absolutely FLIPPED, and even got angry to the point that they say they “lost respect” for Mr. Ballen for not putting a “trigger warning” because animal abuse is apparently soooo much worse than everything else he’s posted about. Comments are also sprinkled with nihilism and “I hate people” as if people don’t treat animals WAY BETTER than any other animal treats themselves or other species.
Here are some examples of the outlandishly bleeding-heart comments
I’ve noticed this more and more in modern society, where people hate humanity but have an unhealthy obsession with both their pets and any other wild animals. These animals will never think, love, reflect, invent, talk back to you, and yet you value them over your own fellow man.
Is this a symptom of Clown World or am I looking too deeply into it??
One thing to also take note of is that in the story Mr. Ballen told, the general 1900s audience actually got mad at the ELEPHANT, and wanted it killed. Today, it’s the total opposite.
It's a sign for loneliness.
These people substitute animals for the missing positive interaction they ought to have with other people. Unfortunately they're batshit insane and normal people will avoid them - so they get animals as substitutes.
See all the dumbfucks who call their cats/dogs their "babies".
I am familiar with this type, and also see another sort of animal cultist--that of the "service dog" or "emotional support dog" which makes some people feel entitled to drag their curs into public spaces where they are entirely out of place.
I went to a ballgame yesterday--at an indoor domed stadium, not the local public park--and there were dozens of people with dogs there--in the stands--and these things were yapping, lunging, acting like dogs.
It really irritated the hell out of me, but of course all the women present were just gushing, and they even made the jumbotron camera between innings.
The cult of the dog is real. It is, as you say, unfulfilled maternal instinct on sickening public display.
Yeah, I'm seeing that all over the place now. People are bringing their dogs everywhere and it's fucking weird.
And, in women, it's a palliative substitute for the babies they don't have. They take all of their mothering energy and pour it into a cat or a dog.
I think all young adults with pets do this to some degree. It's crazy how your relationship to animals changes once you have children. I still love our pets, but they certainly aren't children. There is a dollar amount that will let every one of them die over.