what separates us from the animals

Posted by Stovepipe (Ames, Iowa, United States) on 17 July 2007 in Cityscape & Urban.

For the record, I think nothing separates us from the animals -- we're animals too. Just like them, only more so.

But looking at this scene in a street intersection near my house made me reflect on how wide sometimes is the conceptual distance between a symbol and the thing symbolized.