Benny and Brandy
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★ON FEBRUARY 14, 2000, a very special yet unusual wedding took place. The wedding was between Benny and Brandy. You might wonder what was so special about a wedding held on Valentine’s Day. Well, Benny and Brandy are two dogs.
The newspaper ran a story with a picture of Brandy dressed in white and Benny with a dog tux on being brought by their owners in preparation for the unusual wedding ceremony. It turned out to be a fairly big event in Houston actually, as dog lovers from all over came to celebrate the union. That’s interesting, I thought. Here we have Benny and Brandy trying to be human, and then we have married couples who act like dogs, fighting and barking at each other all the time, devouring one another.
And we’re supposed to be the human ones …
The point
Two dogs dressed as humans at a wedding while many human couples act like fighting animals reveals the irony of humanity's spiritual state.