Read on about the pragmatic agenda behind scientific objectification, and how philosophy zombifies the physical objects that scientists and engineers mean to enslave.
I believe that, like myself, most secular humanists want to build a kind of oasis for ourselves while we live, knowing that there will be nothing left after death, and not necessarily altering the natural environment.
Those most at war with nature are the neoliberal capitalists and their army of morally relativist nerds.
''Yet that’s exactly the standpoint of the horrified onlooker who observes a corpse rising from the grave, as in the zombie trope. Like the natural law codified by no divine lawgiver, zombie fiction’s undying corpse just is.''
I believe that, like myself, most secular humanists want to build a kind of oasis for ourselves while we live, knowing that there will be nothing left after death, and not necessarily altering the natural environment.
ReplyDeleteThose most at war with nature are the neoliberal capitalists and their army of morally relativist nerds.
''Yet that’s exactly the standpoint of the horrified onlooker who observes a corpse rising from the grave, as in the zombie trope. Like the natural law codified by no divine lawgiver, zombie fiction’s undying corpse just is.''
Best part, great metaphor and fun too.