People try to control nature due to fear because they crave the feeling of belongingness for something more. The most depressing thought it that we, as humans, don 't matter, so ultimately, humans attempt to be more. Even if it is true, and some signs do point to that the meaning life doesn’t have an outside purpose, most people would rather seek knowledge and help the understanding of human life as much as possible. The need to control life is emphasized throughout the texts: Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics written by Kimberly Defazio, the animated movie Harmony, and the essay The War on Compassion, written by Carol J. Adams due to the fact that humans inevitably fear the unknown and what they feel like is out of their control.
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Adams’ work, The War on Compassion, she focuses on how events like genocide and the mass slaughtering of animals and lastly asks the all important question of, “why don’t we care?” (pg.1). She believes that this is paralleled to the thought of stripping an individual 's individuality and labeling them, in turn making it seem less emotional when a genocide occurs. I also agree with this essay, due to past events in history this article is more relevant, for example WWII. When Hitler labeled the jewish population as animals it was more simple for the Germans to watch them suffer, a thought at that time could of been that “they are not humans anyways; humans only care for humans”. This idea plays into the control of nature by changing how humans and animals are being viewed. This starts with the fundamental ideas such as the separation of human animals and non-human animals. This gap in social structure permits normalized violence, the daily slaughter and consumption of animals. This is how, once again, A people can become victims of discrimination and eventually genocide: separating humans into groups. She then goes on to talk about how when the individuality is taken out of an animal, turning a cow into beef, the need for compassion towards that animal is taken away as well. Humans feel as though they are superior due to the fact that we are so much more intellectually advanced than other animals, this causes a massive divide. The enforcement of this hierarchical …show more content…
There are many examples as to why humans feed off the the idea of biopower, but they each deal with their own unique perspectives and understandings of rationalizing fear. Humans enjoy feeling as though they belong to something importantly unique even though we may just be speks in this enormous universe. For me, every time I fear the future and think of ways to try to manipulate and control my surroundings, I always remember one of my favorite quotes by Neil Degrasse Tyson, “I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” We are all important and
The …show more content…
Adams’ work, The War on Compassion, she focuses on how events like genocide and the mass slaughtering of animals and lastly asks the all important question of, “why don’t we care?” (pg.1). She believes that this is paralleled to the thought of stripping an individual 's individuality and labeling them, in turn making it seem less emotional when a genocide occurs. I also agree with this essay, due to past events in history this article is more relevant, for example WWII. When Hitler labeled the jewish population as animals it was more simple for the Germans to watch them suffer, a thought at that time could of been that “they are not humans anyways; humans only care for humans”. This idea plays into the control of nature by changing how humans and animals are being viewed. This starts with the fundamental ideas such as the separation of human animals and non-human animals. This gap in social structure permits normalized violence, the daily slaughter and consumption of animals. This is how, once again, A people can become victims of discrimination and eventually genocide: separating humans into groups. She then goes on to talk about how when the individuality is taken out of an animal, turning a cow into beef, the need for compassion towards that animal is taken away as well. Humans feel as though they are superior due to the fact that we are so much more intellectually advanced than other animals, this causes a massive divide. The enforcement of this hierarchical …show more content…
There are many examples as to why humans feed off the the idea of biopower, but they each deal with their own unique perspectives and understandings of rationalizing fear. Humans enjoy feeling as though they belong to something importantly unique even though we may just be speks in this enormous universe. For me, every time I fear the future and think of ways to try to manipulate and control my surroundings, I always remember one of my favorite quotes by Neil Degrasse Tyson, “I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.” We are all important and