You may think that "Zoo Animal gathering spot" is an unusual name for a blog, and I would agree. But please allow me to explain how it came to be, and perhaps you like I, will feel it's most appropriate.
A friend of mine an internet guru, recently wrote an article questioning the intelligence of people he saw at JFK airport reading a printed newspaper as they awaited their departing flights. "Those Zoo Animals, he called them. Don't they know they could get information from hundreds of newspapers via an RSS feed in real time with aggregated articles that meet their needs?" Perhaps they do...but chose to do otherwise. Perhaps reading the printed newspaper WAS meeting their need!
His comments got me thinking about why we have animals in Zoos. Though there may be other reasons, it seems there are two primary ones: 1)Most people would not see many of those animals if they were not conveniently assembled someplace for easy viewing, and 2)They are rare, in danger of extinction, and are there for protection as well as exhibit. With that in mind I will proudly bear the title of "Zoo Animal", for folks like me are becoming rarer each day; folks who see the importance of keeping in touch with a piece of our fading past, folk who are less concerned with political correctness than with seeing the right thing done, folk who know that there is more to life than increasing its speed and efficiency, and folk who are not concerned with how others may view our "perceived" archaic points of view.
Environmentalist and scientist would view the sudden disappearance of all zoo animals as a tragedy or catastrophe. I say the same can be said for the disappearance of "human" zoo animal! And with that I launch this BlogSpot...the place for the latest "zoo animal view" on issues and events affecting our daily lives!
So what do you think? Am I the last of a dying breed, or are there more Zoo Animals out there?
Interesting article...
ReplyDeleteOld school ways of doing things are coming to an end... Nonetheless, I enjoyed your article...
My eyes get tired reading on the net. I tend to skim rather than read. From one zoo animal to another... well said.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the person that see the news paper as an antiquated form of communications and time or not enough information. Old school understood from experience that it is NOT what you know but what you do with it! Enough is never really enough if you lack contentment. So the newspaper has and will continue to be a KISS much pun intended!
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