Horsemaxxing

For 2025, my theme, my big word to think about for a year, was devotion (with a honorary mention going out to The Beatles, who I think will be superseded by Walter Benjamin). This year, I’m thinking horses¹.

Justice was another contender, but that feels very stuffy. Strangely, Justice never seems to be depicted on a horse, she always just kind of stands there. Evidently, she would look much cooler on a horse, or as a horse.

And in what must be one of the biggest coincidences of my life, it also happens to be year of the horse! So let’s just lock it in, and think a lot about horses this year.

I’ve already started my horse statue photo collection last year, but now that my horse-eye has been opened, they certainly pop up everywhere: It’s very easy to insert a horse into a thought. Already, they are more concept than animal. Look at them too long, and they die; Every industry built around them is killing them in some way. They symbolize technology just as much as they do obsoletion, they are prestige financial assets that you can do war and also therapy with, and if teenage girls like them then that’s WEIRD and you should look down on them.

I have taken a liking to their weird horse proportions and that charming rectangle torso/hair blower face combo. I like when their legs get all tangled up. I like the horse getting pulled out of the lake in the beginning of The Fall. At the same time, I’m quite scared of them, especially with a cop sitting on top. There’s no real precedent for that; the only horse I’ve been acquainted with in my life has been an asthmatic pony that could just barely make it uphill. But apparently, the main tactical purpose of a cavalry charge was to scare infantry into breaking formation, and that makes a lot of sense to me. Horse big.

And this year, I’m gonna make horse huge 😎👍🐎.