http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/can%e2%80%99t-we-all-just-get-along/ Curated Videos Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:00:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/can%e2%80%99t-we-all-just-get-along/comment-page-1/#comment-1329 Sara Osenton Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:29:05 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=4781#comment-1329 I think you make an interesting (and sardonic) point about post 9-11 and trans-species friendship, but it made me wonder. Isn't the very particularism or peculiarity of the way in which these pairs are represented only demonstrating how "un-natural" such friendships are, and thus by extension as a metaphor, how un-natural cross cultural friendships are? There may be a desire to see cross-difference friendship, but in doing so, it only reinforces how this goes against the norm, or the grain of what is "normal" experience. I also think that if this is the metaphor for cross cultural relations, then we should be concerned about the impossibility of integration and hybridization that is represented--Cat/bird love can never outlive a single generation, again reinforcing its unnatural basis. I think you make an interesting (and sardonic) point about post 9-11 and trans-species friendship, but it made me wonder. Isn’t the very particularism or peculiarity of the way in which these pairs are represented only demonstrating how “un-natural” such friendships are, and thus by extension as a metaphor, how un-natural cross cultural friendships are? There may be a desire to see cross-difference friendship, but in doing so, it only reinforces how this goes against the norm, or the grain of what is “normal” experience. I also think that if this is the metaphor for cross cultural relations, then we should be concerned about the impossibility of integration and hybridization that is represented–Cat/bird love can never outlive a single generation, again reinforcing its unnatural basis.

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