If we can learn how to love horses without turning on one another, maybe we can learn how to love ourselves and one another better too? Horses already know how to do this. They don’t oppress one another despite being oppressed by us. Nor do they try to oppress us in return. Most importantly, humans don’t oppress horses because we’re bad people. Humans oppress horses for the same reason we oppress one another: because living in oppressive systems is the only thing we know how to do. So, let’s follow the horses’ leads and let them start to teach us how to create healthy, non-competitive human herds. If we can do that, I’m pretty sure the need to oppress horses will take care of itself.
Kim, absolutely spot on. This is why I say, the more (true) freedom we have, the more freedom the horses will have. Education is important, just after reading this article I feel like I’m more aware of the problem, but I still don’t have a clear feeling of how to find my way out of this human oppression that is so hard to see some times since it feels “normal.” I hope on our call on the 27th we’ll be able to talk about practical ways to create healthy, less-oppressed, human herds in our everyday life.
strongly feel that love, empathy, respect, non-violence, the ability to listen and the predisposition to harmony and peaceful coexistence, are universal values, which lose their genuineness and their authenticity in the when we try to sectorize them, to close them into categories. Proximity to horses helps to cultivate all these values and make them universal. often when I come back from a full immersion of horse watching, I find myself doing “childwatching” with my teenage children, trying to understand them and to leave them the space and freedom of expression as I do with horses and this often makes me realize how insidious control sprite possesses us without our knowledge. Thanks Kim for the deep reflection!
If we can learn how to love horses without turning on one another, maybe we can learn how to love ourselves and one another better too? Horses already know how to do this. They don’t oppress one another despite being oppressed by us. Nor do they try to oppress us in return. Most importantly, humans don’t oppress horses because we’re bad people. Humans oppress horses for the same reason we oppress one another: because living in oppressive systems is the only thing we know how to do. So, let’s follow the horses’ leads and let them start to teach us how to create healthy, non-competitive human herds. If we can do that, I’m pretty sure the need to oppress horses will take care of itself.
Kim, absolutely spot on. This is why I say, the more (true) freedom we have, the more freedom the horses will have. Education is important, just after reading this article I feel like I’m more aware of the problem, but I still don’t have a clear feeling of how to find my way out of this human oppression that is so hard to see some times since it feels “normal.” I hope on our call on the 27th we’ll be able to talk about practical ways to create healthy, less-oppressed, human herds in our everyday life.
strongly feel that love, empathy, respect, non-violence, the ability to listen and the predisposition to harmony and peaceful coexistence, are universal values, which lose their genuineness and their authenticity in the when we try to sectorize them, to close them into categories. Proximity to horses helps to cultivate all these values and make them universal. often when I come back from a full immersion of horse watching, I find myself doing “childwatching” with my teenage children, trying to understand them and to leave them the space and freedom of expression as I do with horses and this often makes me realize how insidious control sprite possesses us without our knowledge. Thanks Kim for the deep reflection!