A very shy maned wolf stopping for a visit at a monastery in Brazil for a bite to eat provided by monks. Because of their super long legs, they walk more like giraffes than typical canines. Maned wolves pose no threat to humans.
Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity. These people willingly embrace or force themselves to accept the rule of the stronger as the eternal norm. Their whole life is a continuous effort to suppress and abase nature, inwardly or outwardly, and to identify themselves with its more powerful surrogates — the race, fatherland, leader, cliques, and tradition. For them, all these words mean the same thing — the irresistible reality that must be honored and obeyed.
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| — | Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (via philosophybits) |
