You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!

If you don’t recognize it, it’s a quote from Planet of the Apes. It’s kinds relevant and the Charlton Heston original is a great movie.

I’ve mentioned that we need to be ready to face anything, and that my money was on a Zombie Apocalypse, but this week I’ve been reconsidering what the source may be when it all goes pear shaped (however, I do recommend Max Brooks  “World War Z” to help you prepare).

I think we’ve been ignoring the animal kingdom, with a little hindsight I think we’ve had plenty of notice that something is afoot (“When Animals Attack” and the entire Planet of the Apes series). We saw these as entertainment and almost totally ignored the warnings they contain. It all changed this week, I think we may have seen the animal kingdoms William Wallace make his presence known (and the real one, not the Mel Gibson version).

This week in Spain a bull jumped into the crowd during a bull fight. Considering these people went there to see a bull tormented it’s difficult to have much sympathy when the bull decided to join them in the expensive seats. The bull gored a couple of people and gave a few others a bit of a kicking before he was brought under control.

Was this the first step towards us living on “Planet of the Bulls”?

While Hemmingway famously felt that Bull Fighting was one of a handful of real sports, many people disagree today. Even Spain is split about the future of Bull Fighting, it’s a rather bloody spectacle that I don’t see the appeal of and some provinces, most notably Catalonia, have banned it. This movement seems o be gaining momentum, the traditionalists talk of history, while a majority see unnecessary suffering.