Ron.M -> RE: "El Inglés" Bullfighter Interview (Sep. 4 2010 18:24:08)
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Yeah hamia, In the interview he says that he tracked down Vincent Hitchcock, who was his first teacher. I'm not keen on Bullfighting, but the guy's ambition does seem to embrace a parallel with others who have given up jobs and stuff in the quest of learning Flamenco. Doit... Although I don't like Bullfighting, I am surprised by the venom it attracts. I think we all have become a bit squeamish in our centrally heated houses and apartments with TV and the Internet, the fridge well stocked and a home delivery meal of any kind just a phone call away if you can't be bothered cooking.. Times have changed and it's quite stunning to think that less than 100 years ago, soldiers in battle still relied upon hand to hand combat to the death! Post traumatic stress was called "shell shock" and if you were lucky you got a dishonorable discharge as a coward... If not you were put up against a barn door in foreign field and shot by a firing squad. Personally, I still feel a bit of a hypocrite condeming Bullfighting while I still continue to eat meat and would rather not think about where it came from. So I don't. I used to think perhaps with our raised standards of living, education and time for intellectual pursuit and had hoped at the turn of the century we were generally heading slowly towards a "Star Trek" kind of utopian society... But in truth, the world today seems a darn sight more violent than I can ever remember as a kid! When you hear of Mexican drug gangs beheading victims and leaving them at the side of the road, the stoning to death of women and men in the Middle East and remotely controlled "drones" used to kill opponents...the atrocities that go on in Africa of limb amputation, rape and killing... I sometimes wonder if anything has changed at all since 100 years ago! But yet young folk seem to accept this as "well..that's the world we live in" sorta thing, turn off the news... and are MORE shocked by Bullfighting? cheers, Ron
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