I am not talking about mindless party animals and vapid frat boys.
From that point to the close at 3 45, it's all Gato improv, screaming mad and mindless and animal, trading fours between his horn and voice, slowly submerging into the growing darkness, getting lost under the waves of sex, madness and music.
"Popular entertainment in Shakespeare's day was often unpleasant, involving public humiliation and mindless cruelty to animals, with no Ant'n'Dec to take the edge off it all," says Philomena Cunk, the idiot reporter sired by Charlie Brooker and so exquisitely given birth to by Diane Morgan.
Those involved are denounced as "animals" and "mindless thugs", and calls are made for the army to be sent to deal with them.
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of Descartes's twin conceptions of animals as mindless meat machines and the human mind as totally separate from the body, and then nail the coffin shut for good.
Darwin certainly didn't consider animals to be mindless nonsubjects… you may have a point, but I don't think that most of us are in a behaviorist hangover, though certainly plenty of biologists are!
Second, there is a lot at stake morally in the question of whether animals are conscious beings or "mindless automata".
Thus plants are like animals which are asleep, but not thereby mindless nor even unconscious, insofar as they possess no less than animals a complex set of teleological mechanisms serving their perseverance.
The townspeople are similarly depicted using imagery of either animals or machines, characterizing them as both bestial and mindless.
Loosely based on George Orwell's political fable Animal Farm, its lyrics describe various classes in society as different kinds of animals: the combative dogs, despotic ruthless pigs, and the "mindless and unquestioning herd" of sheep.
