The Cock Is A Muscle...

"The cock is a muscle, You just gotta learn to use it!"
Kyle Gass - Tenacious D

The lecture on cockfighting, and the section I wrote in my essay interested me greatly. I had really mixed feelings at the start of the lecture, and I had questions on the validity of the chosen section being on the course. However over time and after research, the cockfighting ands its metaphorical meanings gave me insight into so much about human nature.

With the group doings its presentation on the possbile harm of multiculturalism, I went back to my original essay and began to wonder about if the cockfighting was really an outlet of violence and hatred, a way of expelling physical anger and discharge bad energys by focusing on the animals, or was it a vicious blood sport that could cause MORE violence, as a crowd enjoys the fights.

After flicking through my notes I stumbled across my old friend 'ambivalence', however now I'm alot more friendly with the term, where as before I was spectical about the possibility of having a family member you feel ambivilant towards for example. The way ambivalence was linked to cockfighting was brilliant, the idea of personification of the animals, they way they are groomed, presented and prized, added with the sheer brute anamalistic nature that the villagers are shameful of really made the penny drop on ambivalence

I tried to think of how I could relate an idea of ambivalence in the sense of community in Britain, to show a way a community has an act that it loves and hates, to bring about a better society. However considering Wolverhampton is one of the most anti-social and secular places i have ever come accross this was hard pushed. I think the liberal/capatalist system that focuses on the individual causes this, we no longer wish to help a community, and we dont relize a thriving community helps us, we just want it all for ourselves...