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Created: Octobera 20, 2002
Latest Update: October 20, 2002
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Commentary on Recent Lectures: October 20, 2002
on Recognizing the Thoughtless Harm
of Not Being Sensitive to the Other
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jeanne's comments
You know, I never seem to know what I'm going to paint until Friday is upon me, and it's time to upload a new issue. This week I was checking through some of my database files when I ran across Gill's Chocolate Bunny cartoon. I don't know Gill. Don't know how I happened to have it. But I found it funny in a kind of sick way. Sick, mainly because it represents to me our ability to deny with impunity the harm we cause others. No, I didn't really cry for too long over the chocolate bunny. He was chocolate, and he was made to be eaten. But the denial is sitting out there anyway. The frist rabbit says "Happy (used to be Easter I changed it to) Halloween." The poor bunny whose ears were eaten can't hear. Thus the "what?".Scratch one chocolate Easter/Halloween bunny. Chocolate bunnies are usually eaten, so it's not a terrible fate. But how often do we treat humans in very much the same way? I moved the chocolate bunny to Rodeo Drive, with large cups of hot chocolate and sidewalk tables and fancy cars, without any noticeable tickets, of course, parked in the red zone in front of Gucci's and Ferragamo's. Now, there a Chocolate Bunny should be at home. Everything is commodified, consumed, eaten, worn, or well . . . commodified. I put the chocolate bunny on a leash, thus giving him life, not just a chocolate bite. But, as in Magritte's Ce N'est Pas Une Pipe, his yelp that he is not a chocolate bunny but a real live pet bunny dressed up to look like a chocolate bunny, well . . . . Disney taught us to mix up fantasy with reality, and then we never have to pay for any of it, at least not in real money, except that somehow Enron fell apart.
Now please don't misunderstand. I like Beverly Hills. But sometimes it's very hard to keep your balance of human understanding, caring, empathy in a world where everything is for sale, and even after you've bought it, your world is still all screwed up anyway. When we create fantasy places to play, we need to remind ourselves that they're fantasy, and not come back to real life with the same level of denial that fantasy permits. In the real world, not hearing, not listening in good faith to others, not being sensitive to what Others are feeling or being forced to do is called COMPLICITY with a governing group that exploits most and demands Animations by Pat Grugan.
From Soc 334: Women in Society
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From Soc 367: Sociology of Law
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From Soc 370: Moot court and Social Justice
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From Soc 595: Reinterpretation of Theory
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