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For the sake of complying with normality, wanting to be part
of this very large system we live in, we don’t notice that we have started to
think like a zombie. We start to believe our own rhetoric.
As we edge towards the zombie
state we find ourselves believing in and following our TV-authorised
instructions. Buy this, eat this, wear this. The provenance of commodities not
questioned. And if there’s a whiff of the ugly behind anything, then the heart
is hardened, shutting down what might be true for the sake of staying normal and
acceptable to those around us. If it’s not a zombie state then it might be a juvenile
state, because we are letting ourselves be led, like lambs to the slaughter. By
simply doing what others do, or by not feeling the need to grow up into an
independent thinker, we shirk our responsibilities. We ignore our innate
guardianship nature which, in any other context, would never allow us to get
mixed up in such an ugly business as animal abuse.
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