Recently the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
said “We have a stray dog problem, a problem
that does not exist in any developed country.”,
as if the problems of developed countries
were preferable to those of poorer lands
where the hand to mouth existence of many
made the citizens of the country more hospitable
to those who lived on the land without money,
the dogs and cats whose lives enrich the backdrop
of those for whom a lack of money does less for them
than the surfeit of wealth and debt in wealthy countries
does for the rich, they have to measure the value
of their domesticated animals in pet insurance and vet fees.
To live immune and invisible to the ways money
measures who we are is a choice devoutly to be wished.
If we want to see beyond what the blinkers that wealth
stop us seeing we can, please left click on this link to start.
