[D66] Cartesianisme

[René Oudeweg]

Waarom is het toch zo moeilijk om los te komen van het cartesiaans
substantiedualisme? Geest/Lichaam etc.. Is Fluks nog steeds een
cartesiaan die hier het nog nooit opgenomen heeft voor een dier? De
ellendeling...


“No one can deny seriously any more, or for very long, that men do all
they can in order to dissimulate this cruelty or to hide it from
themselves; in order to organize on a global scale the forgetting or
misunderstanding of this violence, which some would compare to the worst
cases of genocide (there are also animal genocides: the number of
species endangered because of man takes one’s breath away). One should
neither abuse the figure of genocide nor too quickly consider it
explained away. It gets more complicated: the annihilation of certain
species is indeed in process, but it is occurring through the
organization and exploitation of an artificial, infernal, virtually
interminable survival, in conditions that previous generations would
have judged monstrous, outside of every presumed norm of a life proper
to animals that are thus exterminated by means of the continued
existence or even their overpopulation.

As if, for example, instead of throwing a people into ovens and gas
chambers (let’s say Nazi) doctors and geneticists had decided to
organize the overproduction and overgeneration of Jews, gypsies, and
homosexuals by means of artificial insemination, so that, being
continually more numerous and better fed, they could be destined in
always increasing numbers for the same hell, that of the imposition of
genetic experimentation, or extermination by gas or by fire.” --Derrida

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R.O.


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