FAMILY FUN RUN
My heart hangs heavy with dismay
nothing changes,
we've heard all the excuses.
The need to cull
to prevent starvation,
TB. prevention,
rare tree preservation,
conservation heroes all,
with no justification.
But in reality
they gather for fun,
for their recreation
this noble beast must run
- - - run for his life.
They have chosen the biggest and the best
to liven the race,
using relays of horses and hounds
to prolong the chase.
As he runs, he is dying.
With hounds yowling and crying - - -
and biting his flanks
-----he is shot - - face to face,
bled and dismembered.
Triumphant Masters are
back-slapped and applauded,
impressionable children,
traditionally rewarded-----
by ritual blooding.
Stag hunts are confined to two hounds, but both horses and hounds can be replaced with fresh ones as frequently as required, enabling stags to be chased for hours until their bodies break down. Exhausted stags are eventually forced to turn to face their fate and are shot at close quarters. If they are lucky enough to escpe they are unlikely to survive and die a lingering death.
Sergey Dobrenkov
Tue 6th Oct 2026 20:54
In the beginning, the world was theocentric; then man placed himself at the center, and this was called "humanism"; now comes the era of post- and transhumanism (when "everything is permitted"), which is moving toward a "flat ontology", in whose coordinate system man is made equal to a plastic bag; there is no longer any place in it for nobility and hierarchy. The dismemberment of Marius the giraffe in February 2014, before the eyes of children, as an Overton window, speaks of the same thing. But we are endowed with godlike freedom and are not obliged to accept these ruses. The world, as it was in the beginning, so it has remained.