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A group of Spanish and Iberoamerican cultural organizations are collecting signatures for a petition to be presented to UNESCO, that corrida be declared cultural patrimony of the humanity. Their motivation is to prevent fanatical animal-rightists from their attempts to influence different international organizations, with the aim of having corrida banned.

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On the long term, the fiesta is doomed. It's a very traditional art, where beauty and bravery are involved, and this is disgusting for a modern spectator. You cannot show strenght or superiority today, and you cannot "mistreat" anyone, it doesn't matter the context. It's typical of the PC elite forces to focus in the most superficial "problems" (the fiesta), and forget about the real ones (the insane mass killing and ill-treatment of animals in farms, the broken link between man and nature, etc).

The animal rightists are hypocrits and their bodies should be sold as food for dogs. This way they would actually help those who they profess to love. I guess I don't like them very much

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Yes indeed, some people are not ready to face reality. They prefer not thinking of the slaughtered cow in their plate while having their dinner but will make a fuss about a bull dying bravely in an arena. Certainly a cow doesn't suffer as much as a bull... (that has a tasty flesh, btw)
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This is what the corrida (bullfighting) represents:

The accommodation of vast extensions of land (dehesas) where that very special breed of brave bulls roam free and protected like no other animal does in Europe. And arguably anywhere else in the world.

The selective breeding techniques that bring improved castes in such a noble animal.

A death in accordance with the noble character of the animal, fighthing.

Unlike the fate of other animals, bred in factories and put to death mechanically in slaughterhouses.

The preservation of an animal which would be otherwise stripped off of its noble and fighting nature to be domesticated, and then it would go extinct except for a few samples in a zoo, because it would not be viable in this sick modern world to keep a place for them.

We are unfortunate to be European men, instead of Spanish brave bulls.

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On the long term, the fiesta is doomed. It's a very traditional art, where beauty and bravery are involved, and this is disgusting for a modern spectator. You cannot show strenght or superiority today, and you cannot "mistreat" anyone, it doesn't matter the context. It's typical of the PC elite forces to focus in the most superficial "problems" (the fiesta), and forget about the real ones (the insane mass killing and ill-treatment of animals in farms, the broken link between man and nature, etc).
Yes, the industrial chicken, like for example Ross 708, is more outrageous phenomenon than many of the things that animal-rightists and other fake do-gooders point at as "mistreatment".

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The animal rightists are hypocrits and their bodies should be sold as food for dogs. This way they would actually help those who they profess to love. I guess I don't like them very much
I share your profound disgust for animal-rightists. They almost literally make my stomach churn. The main problem with them is that theirs is not a genuine concern for a balance (yes, balance is the key word, because total harmony is unattainable in the current fallen condition of the human existence) between man and nature, theirs is just a cheap sentimentalism. The most widespread condition of the modern man in the West (and in the post-communist "East" as well) is that of alienation from God, fellow man and nature. It needs somehow to be compensated, because our human nature requires bond with the Absolute and with nature. Some compensate the loss of this bond by some hypocritical so-called love for the humanity while others go one step further and embrace hatred for humanity (I personally think that this hatred of humanity is the logical outcome and maybe even other side of the coin of the hypocritical "love for the humanity", because that "love" almost always implies the futile expectations of sublime ideals to be attained by the "humanity", the ideals that humanity invariably fails to attain to satisfy the dreamer and hence love turns into hatred) disguised as some cheap sentimental "love" for the nature and for the animals. This sentimentalism is deeply egoistic (as any sentimentalism is fundamentally egositic, because it is in principle the perversion of the genuine emotion) and its main goal is to "feel good". The modern petit bourgeois of the consumer mass-society needs such ersatz emotions (aka sentiments) to distract him a little bit from the miserable state he is in.

Now I can respect someone who accepts vegetarianism as his dietary regime, whether it be for medical or ethical reasons, or even if someone accepts the Jain radical worldview (although I am in principle opposed to importation of Eastern spiritualities) of non-hurting any living being. These are some coherent philosophies, unlike the sentimentalism of the modern Western wankers. Vegetarianism was even practiced in some Christian monastic orders. Remember that even Jesus Christ on his last supper, on which lamb was eaten according to the ancient Hebraic custom, instituted eucharist composed of bread and wine, that is, only agricultural products. There is maybe a symbolism in that.

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How much did the animal-rightists succeed so far in their attempts to criminalize and ban corrida?
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How much did the animal-rightists succeed so far in their attempts to criminalize and ban corrida?
They are mostly ignored here. I am certain that the Socialist would gladly campaign and ban the corridas. But they don't dare say a word about it, because of its popularity. Not surprisingly, it was other socialists, the National Socialists (CEDADE), who also campaigned against bullfighting in the name of a [in my opinion jacobinist and vulgar] "europeanism".

Inspite of the negative publicity and attacks against it (orchestrated by leftists and foreigners "traditionally" from Germanic countries), there is a rise in popularity. Compare the abonos (season tickets) of the Fair of San Isidro in Madrid, in 1956 and 2004:

In 1956, there was a total of 6 events, all of them on foot. In 2004, there was a total of 29 events, of which 23 were corridas de lidia (bullfighting on foot), 6 novilladas (less strict, with 3 year old bulls or not so good ones) and 3 corridas de rejones (bullfighting on horse).

Personally, I am more of the opinion of the 30s Spanish Fascist thinker, Ernesto Giménez Caballero, with respect to Tauromaquia (The Arts of Bulls).

Giménez Caballero argued against the romanticization and popularization of the Tauromaquia in XIXth century, which dropped the noble fighter off the horse to turn him into a labourer on foot. This, he argued, was the result of the influences arrived from "Europe" that degraded to the vulgar popularism an art which was of a noble Hispanic origin. And in fact it was noblemen and hidalgos who practiced it on horse, since ancient.

I believe that his central argument was that with the change from an aristocratic (Spanish) character to a democratic (Central European) character, if you want to speak in terms of "cruelty" the popularization had turned it into a more "cruel" show. But this is arguable, since it refers only to what is externally visible or perceived.

The fight on horse still exists today. It is called corrida de rejones. Though the correct name is rejoneo. Lately, I've been thinking about buying an abono (a season ticket) for the rejoneo events. If only to support the preservation of the noble breed of brave bulls, and of the Art of Tauromaquia. Only the price could put me off, but I'm willing to do a financial sacrifice. In plazas de toros (bullrings) like that of Las Ventas in Madrid, abonos for certain events are not only outrageously expensive but they are also not available (some people pass it from generation to generation).

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Some beautiful images of a corrida de rejones in Valencia.

[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0iNr2ENkZaw[/MEDIA]

This video of images and video by a female fan of rejoneador
Pedro Hernández, "El Cartagenero".

[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=x5j7p_b3e8U[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=rl7-xeJ4riE[/MEDIA]

A video from "Le Midi" (@Carnyx: ).

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrYPUNcfqFk[/MEDIA]

Unarguably, from a linage of grand rejoneadores, the Portuguese João Moura Sr.
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx5M3_aiGz0[/MEDIA]

Don't miss the Navarran rejoneador Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza. And notice what the toreros are: helpers.
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKV10RNPYY8[/MEDIA]
State of the Art! Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, in Nimes (Occitania).
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rt3Vjce4JI[/MEDIA]

Sublime! A quiebro before the bull!
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This is what the corrida (bullfighting) represents:

The accommodation of vast extensions of land (dehesas) where that very special breed of brave bulls roam free and protected like no other animal does in Europe. And arguably anywhere else in the world.

The selective breeding techniques that bring improved castes in such a noble animal.

A death in accordance with the noble character of the animal, fighthing.

Unlike the fate of other animals, bred in factories and put to death mechanically in slaughterhouses.

The preservation of an animal which would be otherwise stripped off of its noble and fighting nature to be domesticated, and then it would go extinct except for a few samples in a zoo, because it would not be viable in this sick modern world to keep a place for them.

We are unfortunate to be European men, instead of Spanish brave bulls.

An interesting comment about the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) from The Extinction Website:

"A cattle population that as a whole has more characteristics of the aurochs than the current Heck cattle is that of the Spanish Fighting cattle. Within the heterogeneous population of the Spanish fighting cattle not only more aurochs characteristics are present, but often also combined in one individual. Within this populations there exist for example red-brown cows with a small utter and the aurochs horn shape, and black-brown bulls with a light eel stripe, a light snout and the aurochs horn shape. The selection and crossing of these Spanish bull fight can reach the target to recreate the aurochs much faster and better than has been done by the Heck brothers and their Heck cattle. (Van Vuure, 2003)"

In the image, a 1920 painting recreating the fight of an auroch against a pack of Eurasian wolves:
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Inspite of the negative publicity and attacks against it (orchestrated by leftists and foreigners "traditionally" from Germanic countries)
An anti-taurine campaign in The Netherlands.



Shouldn't we slap them in the face for their hypocrisy, and as supporters of a noble death of the bovines that we are, campaign with similar tactics against the horrendous and ignoble deaths that they give to cows in their slaughterhouses?
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Watch a video of a slaughterhouse, and meet the difference.

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"In Praise of Corrida" (in Italian)

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Nessuna attività umana racchiude una carica simbolica ed emotiva pari a quella della Corrida. L'uomo moderno ha deciso di abbandonare la strada della conoscenza di sé, di rifiutare quella natura complessa, tesa tra il sublime e l'oscuro, che testimoni come Eschilo e Shakespeare hanno documentato in un passato in cui oggi esso stenta a riconoscersi. Nato individuo, si sta educando sempre più a pensare come gruppo: religioso, politico, nazionale, aziendale, sindacale, calcistico. Non ci sarebbe nulla di male, se quest'uomo collettivo non fosse nato spacciando il suo scopo sociale per un presupposto già realizzato. Se non avesse preferito dimostrare con artificiose formule e dogmatici postulati di essere migliorato, evitando così di dover veramente migliorare. Poiché la logica del gruppo lo richiede, ha dichiarato di essere all'improvviso divenuto pacifista ed egalitario. Ipnotizzato dai propri stessi slogan, ha presto finito per crederci. Dopo la padella del male di vivere, esplorato dai talenti letterari del novecento, l'Uomo ha così conosciuto una brace ancor più perniciosa: la gioia obbligatoria di vivere.

Noi ci dichiariamo fuori da questo coretto di voci bianche, da questo treno ad una sola classe, da questa platea tutta bacetti e applausi, da questo corteo senza Eroi. Crediamo che qualsiasi processo di elevazione civile possa partire dai singoli ed estendersi a tutto il genere umano, ma non viceversa. Le chiarine della Plaza de Toros infrangono al primo fiato ogni squallida contraffazione e pongono l'Uomo, il singolo ed ogni singolo, di fronte a sé stesso e alle cose che veramente contano. La serietà del tutto è garantita dalla presenza della Morte, di fronte alla quale la retorica delle epigrafi tombali o dei gesti toreri, che senza di essa cadrebbero entrambe nel ridicolo, acquista una dignità incontestabile. I piani di lettura della Corrida sono infiniti. Essa è tragedia, seduzione, fasto, iniziazione, riscatto, rito, comunione, passione, arte, identificazione. La corrida è scandita e regolata in modo rigido non solo dalla tradizione, ma addirittura da leggi dello Stato. Protetto da una ritualità così solida, lo spettatore trova il conforto per abbandonare il piano reale e tuffarsi nel magico. Egli viene così investito dal simbolo, raggiunge nel torero e nel toro la visione chiara dei valori ancestrali del coraggio e della bellezza, partecipandone sino all'esaltazione. In astratto ogni cosa è schematizzata ed avviene allo stesso modo. In concreto, la differenza è nella sensibilità dei singoli spettatori, nell'interpretazione del torero, nella casta del toro e nel modo imprevedibile in cui tutto ciò viene mescolandosi. Nel toro parla il dio più antico, quello che non ha mai parlato per mezzo di profeti. Il suo linguaggio, quello del Cosmo, ci risulta incomprensibile. Solo il torero sa tradurne qualche breve parola ed il loro suono solenne insieme ci esalta e ci commuove. Quale appassionato non ha sentito l'urgenza delle lacrime, non si è sentito trasfigurare nel tributare al torero o al toro un meritato trionfo? Ogni spettacolo tende a suscitare un'emozione attraverso l'immedesimazione. Nell'arena questo meccanismo è così potente che noi non possiamo limitarci a dire che la Corrida sia lo spettacolo più bello, ma che è l'unico. Innanzitutto, per la sovrannaturale puntualità. Nell'arena, il paseo* entra con precisione cronometrica. Solo qui, dove si rispetta veramente l'Uomo, si rispetta in lui anche lo spettatore. Se avete pagato per uno spettacolo che inizi alle diciotto, è alle diciotto in punto che lo vedrete cominciare. Chi c'è, c'è. Non è cosa da poco e dimostra sin dall'inizio che si fa sul serio, non ci si sta a baloccare con cosucce da stiracchiare prima o dopo, tanto è l'istesso. Non ci sono scuse per chi sbaglia, né bis per chi trionfa. E' tutto lì, consegnato alla memoria, la vera madre del toreo. Anche col migliore cartello di toreri ed il migliore allevamento di tori, nessuno potrà seriamente prevedere se lo spettacolo andrà più vicino all'estasi o ad una macellazione. L'improvvisazione del torero consegna agli spettatori un ricordo, ma esso può risultare così vivido da estendersi in racconti di decine di minuti per una tanda** che in realtà si svolse in pochissimi secondi.

La corrida non è riproducibile. L'opera dei grandi toreri si conserva misteriosamente nella memoria di chi l'ha vista e si tramanda nei racconti tra aficionados. I video servono a poco, se non a dimostrare l'esistenza di uno spettacolo ben più aristocratico del torneo di Wimbledon o dell'Open degli Stati Uniti. Vedete e credete, Voi che sapete notare anche quello che non c'è: in quasi tutte le arene non viene esposta la più piccola pubblicità, nonostante la presenza di quindici/ventimila persone e di reti televisive nazionali. Signori, in piedi, questa grandezza altrove è già morta! L' amore per la vita vissuta e quello per la Corrida vanno spesso insieme. Ernest Hemingway, che fu un grande conoscitore dell'una e dell'altra, al momento di introdurre l'argomento scrisse che la Corrida non si può giustificare. Ciò è vero solo se per farlo si intende utilizzare lo stesso metro dei suoi detrattori. Se ci atteniamo ad una moralità diversa, quella che si usa nei momenti importanti, la cosa cambia aspetto. I tristi animalisti, incapaci di vedere nell'animale o nell'uomo altra cosa che non sia la vita del singolo individuo, non possono accedere a questo punto di vista. Stare sempre dalla parte dei deboli è un sistema facile per avere ragione, sicché a noi non resta che quella del torto. Ci sta bene, perché noi difendiamo la Bellezza ovunque si trovi ed essa è spesso nei posti più scomodi. Nonostante sia una battaglia difficile, qui e sempre noi sosterremo come gli scopi dell'esistenza vadano oltre il semplice esistere e che pertanto anche la vita possa essere giocata e persa con ottime ragioni. Spesso, andando al cinema, spenderete qualche decina di Euro per condividere questa opinione, vedendo l'Eroe di turno rischiare o sacrificarsi per l'amico, la patria, i figli, l'amore. Sono soldi mal spesi, se uscendo avrete già cambiato idea alla prima desolante lagna alla De Amicis. A proposito, persino nel libro Cuore gli episodi più belli si illuminano o si concludono con la morte.

* Il paseo è il corteo con cui inizia la corrida, formato da tutte le figure che vi partecipano.
** La tanda è una serie di passi collegati tra loro. I singoli passi sono quindi come parole isolate, che l'artista sceglie e
riunisce per ottenere una frase. A sua volta questa potrà essere brillante o retorica, inespressiva o poetica.

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