Tender Is the Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica

No one can call them humans because that would mean giving them an identity.

One can get used to almost anything, except the death of a child.

“But then why do you consider it atrocious?” “Because it is. But that’s what’s incredible, that we accept our excesses, that we normalize them, that we embrace our primitive essence.”

“After all, since the world began, we’ve been eating each other. If not symbolically, then we’ve been literally gorging on each other. The Transition has enabled us to be less hypocritical.”