Re: What is your counsel?

Description: All Moby wants is a little honesty.

Transcript:

Well because there’s the . . . the cumulative effect of all our actions. And things are pretty good, but they can always be improved. And especially like if you see the disaster looming on the horizon and you know can do something now to prevent that disaster, well you might as well. I mean it just sort of makes sense.

I think that we’re communicating and I think we’re talking. And I think we’re approaching, you know, and ever more egalitarian society. And we are constantly extending rights to new people and new creatures, you know? I mean it’s . . . it’s fantastic. I mean, go back 500 years or 600 years and the only people who had rights were aristocratic white mean. And now everybody has rights, you know? And so . . . And there’s no question, you know? I mean six hundred years ago, and if you were in U.K., could women own property? Probably not, you know. Kids had no rights. The developmentally disabled had no rights. Now it’s great. We’ve sort of accepted everybody, you know. Everybody . . . And even certain species we’re even accepting have rights, you know? So ultimately we’ll get to that point where every relatively _________ creature will have basic, you know, sort of rights of existence.It’s different for everybody. I mean I think that . . . I . . . Again I don’t wanna sound like . . . like a grad student, but I think that semiotics should taught at every grad . . . you know . . . at every grade school, you know? Every ten year old . . . Like every couple of years, kids should have refresher courses on semiotics because that’s what rules our world, you know. The majority of Americans, when they decided the war in Iraq was a travesty was when they saw images of Iraqis being tortured and prisoned. It didn’t matter that you had 100,000 dead Iraqis before that. It took those specific, powerful images. So different people respond to different, you know, semiotic triggers. And it’s just a shame that we’re all so easily duped.One thing would be to stop using animals for human purposes. You know? It’s bad for us. It’s bad for the animals. It’s bad for the environment. There’s really no good justification for why people continue to eat and torture animals. I just . . . it boggles my mind. We could all stop driving so much. As a country we con . . . I mean, we could stop subsidizing outmoded and inefficient forms . . . you know . . . energy and agricultural processes. We could have a human . . . We could have a foreign policy that was self-interested, but still respected the rights of other people.Recorded On: 5/29/07