Comments on Unemployed Negativity: Horrors Old and New: Remaking Reality

Your remake sounds like my regular everyday life o...

2011-12-06T14:57:36.012-05:00

Your remake sounds like my regular everyday life on long-term dole in the UK due to a disability. Whilst under Blair and Gordon it was like being caged, but under Cameron it's been like let out of a cage that was confining but provided a modicum of security to be hunted by those one bosses decision away from your own position and resentful of it, but unfortunately facing the wrong way, as you suggest desperately clinging to some sense of superiority.
The sad truth is that having come under fire by the tories media war on benefits, (a few of) those only one rung up the ladder from me have been the worst offenders when it comes to policing it.

Yes, of course biologically, but that is not reall...

2011-12-03T15:02:41.470-05:00

Yes, of course biologically, but that is not really what I was talking about. I was talking about the way in which the animal/human divide, which is a cultural/ideological/conceptual divide (biology notwithstanding), is used to reinforce or trouble divisions within humanity. The horror of the man hunts man scenario, like much horror, stems from human beings treating human beings like they treat animals, and only non-human animals can be legally hunted, eaten, and experimented upon, but it also reflects ideas about divisions, class, race, etc. within humanity. I have often thought that there is no division between the human and the animal that does not also echo and reflect ideas about divisions within humanity.

Mistakenly missing from the previous comment . . ....

2011-12-03T14:36:16.514-05:00

Mistakenly missing from the previous comment . . . to be placed at the end of that comment:

Speciesism is the last refuge of domination.

Interesting post, as always. However: "Like...

2011-12-03T14:33:55.750-05:00

Interesting post, as always. However:

"Like much horror, the story works from the basic premise that true horror is being treated like an animal."

"As a symbol of mankind's victory over the animal . . ."

Of course, mankind (humankind) is an animal, biologically speaking.