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death is like a blank canvas for ‘meaning’ and whatever feelings humans can apply to it, so the whole premise of the book is that b/c death is now commoditized it’s devoid of a deeper philosophical or cultural meaning since there are profits attached to it (although profit could be seen as a cultural thing). this validates my hate for capitalism and its habit of poisoning everything. super dystopian so far.
— Jun 04, 2025 08:40AM
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sam
is on page 150 of 209
i’ve been super curious about the race aspect of this world i’m glad (not glad but ykwim) that the author didn’t try to pretend like pre-existing racial dynamics wouldn’t affect how this new order of humans/food would play out. i don’t even know what to think about this book anymore bc the setting is just so depressing
— Jun 11, 2025 08:46AM
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i was mistaken. he raped her. i had too much faith in him.
— Jun 11, 2025 08:20AM
sam
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i definitely think the last sentence alludes to Marcos “loving” the female or at least considering her as a person rather than as property. the way Marcos seems to love the female seems similar to the way people (or at least how i) love their pets, as “persons” in their own right worthy of respect and care. i cant tell how problematic that relationship is yet, if its even problematic at all
— Jun 11, 2025 07:29AM
sam
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killing, skinning, gutting, and butchering non-human animals is the same as with humans (as Bazterrica describes it at least), with differences only in actual physiology and the avg observer’s moral reaction. a life is being taken for the purpose of consumption. the books’ undertone of moral corruption shows how human-centric and arbitrary “culture” can be when it comes to who is worth moral consideration.
— Jun 05, 2025 08:24PM
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Jun 04, 2025 08:45AM
so glad i took anthro of life and death and anthro of animals bc i have so many academic works that im relating this book back to as i read it. humans are forced to acknowledge the arbitrary line that we’ve drawn between us and other animals now that non-human animals cannot be exploited on the basis of their non-human-ness. pragmatically, personhood was always differentially applied to various groups based on prejudice and nation-building strategies, but here, personhood has a new legal basis/justification for being distributed differentially. i’m gonna be so depressed by the end of this book
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