“Kairos Opportunities for a New

Perspectives on Memories and Tradition”

Drury University
February 11, 2011

“If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.”

- Voltaire
Freedom
 Blue or Red Pill

“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you
want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep
the rabbit hole goes.” - Morpheus (The Matrix)
 The Last to Know

“Akpa le tome gake menya tsi fe vevie nyenyeo.”

(“A fish is the last to comprehend the existence of water.”)
- African Proverb
 The Air We Breathe

“Air is that part of the Earth's atmosphere that animals breathe. It is made up
of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% other substances, such as water vapor and
other particulate matter.”
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Culture
 The Lottery

“Custom will
reconcile people to
any atrocity.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“Pack of crazy fools...listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next
thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work anymore,
live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.'
First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always
been a lottery." - Old Man Warner (The Lottery)
 Baby Jumping

El Colacho Festival (Castrillo de Murcia, Spain)

Khokana Festival

Lalitpur, Nepal
 Ukweshawama Festival

King Goodwill Zwelithini

Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

 El Antzar Eguna

“Day of the Geese”, San Antolin Festival

(Lekeitio, Basque Country/Spain)
 “Goat Tossing”

San Vicente de Martir

(Manganeses de la Polvorosa , Spain)
Bear Baiting

Pakistan
 Horse Fighting

China, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia

 Cultural Cocoon

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

– Aldous Huxley
A Day Like Any Other…
Collision of Cultures
Thit Cho (Dog Meat)
If It Moves, Eat It
Hear No Evil…
Cognitive Dissonance
 My Dilemma

I do not eat Dogs and Cats

dogs or cats are no different Dogs & Cats are
than other kinds OK to eat
of animals

Pigs, Cows &

Confusion Chickens are no Go Vegetarian
Tension different than
Dogs and Cats
Distress
Shame

Dogs and Cats

are different than Rationalize
other kinds of Status Quo
animals

I eat other animals

Kairos Opportunities

Chronos Francesco Salviati

(1509-1563)
 Know Yourself
“It is necessary from time-to-time to
have the courage to sort through
one’s own beliefs, to set aside the
questionable ones until by
introspection and education you
eventually discover those that remain
unassailable. And then from that
vantage point, to begin again to re-
asses those contingent beliefs you
have set aside in the light of new
wisdom. You are able then to see
with new eyes.”

René Descartes (1596-1650)

“Duck”
Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82) Emile-Edouard Mouchy, 1832 “30-a-Day” Dogs
Sport Hunting
Rodeo
Circus
 What Else?

“Idiatrod”

“Cock Fighting”
“Alligator Wrestling”

“Horse Carriages”
“Pigeon Shoots”
“Lucky” Rabbit’s Foot “Dog Fighting”
 Food Traditions?

“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel
instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.”
- Albert Schweitzer
 Seeing With New Eyes

“First they ignore you, then

they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win.”
- Gandhi (1869-1948)

“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes

but in seeing with new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
 The Choice is Yours

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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