Lecture 7(Reading)

The reading material of week eight discusses the way ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern age and states that the zoos are the production of the culture of capitalism. By analysis the relationship pf human and nature, the author address a question that is very common in our daily life but hardly been officially raised, which is what does animals mean to us and what has been changes over the centuries when we getting along with animals. In the article, the author raised a realistic definition that the animals in terms of accompany is the objects of our ever-extending knowledge and they reflect our power and ideology. However, the more we know about the world distinct us from them. The article discusses the idea of humanity with a broad, critical perspective. It states a cultural marginalization of animal, which means the position of animals in our life are less and less functional to human, instead, people consider animals as the observing objects and researching objects. Animals under the capitalism context are no longer considered useful for us, however, they are also no longer free as they were before. The cultural marginalization of animal and the accumulation of human knowledge inspired me in two different aspects, one is the human being might be too arrogant when dealing with the relationship with nature and animals, another is the process for human begins pursue knowledge truly distinct us with any other species. For example, the progress of media industry would promote knowledge and spread the justice ideology at the same time, when people are busy accumulating knowledge, they might not forget to treat animals the same rights as well.

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