Counter-Currents
Ferdinand von Wright, Pigeons
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A friend recently sent me a video on the history of Western, and specifically Anglo-American, cultural attitudes towards pigeons. The specificity of the subject titillated my thoroughly postmodern fancy, so I gave it a watch. You should as well.
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Very interesting article, Nick. They are especially linked to the homeless and that kind of urban dysfunction — public “pests” and such.
I’m a little surprised that the video didn’t mention their conspicuous role in Western history as “homing,” or “carrier-pigeons,” used in many types of correspondence, but particularly during wartime.
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