I was doing research on the internet to make illustrations about zoo animals, and then this book cover showed up and appeared to be appealing to me. I never read this book before but here are some good quotes worth thinking upon in the interview with Charlotte Wood on her book ‘Animal People’
"I highly recommend visiting a zoo to observe human behaviour—it’s really quite enthralling. People are very, very weird. One of the most striking things I noticed was how desperate we seem to be, at zoos, for the animals to look at us."
"We sentimentalise animals to almost exactly the same extent that we brutalise them, and while anthropomorphism can be a good thing (in understanding, for example, when animals might feel pain), it can also be disrespectful and narcissistically human-centred in assuming that what is good for us is good for animals. What I’m interested in is the many kinds and levels of denial we employ in our behaviour towards animals."
很喜歡在網路上看到這本書的封面
所以去看了關於她的介紹和作者的interview
作者Charlotte Wood說
「去動物園觀察人類行為是很棒的一件事，你會發現人類非常、非常的怪。」
「我們詮釋動物的情感就像我們虐待她們的程度一樣。有時候擬人化是一件好事，它讓我們去思考動物也會感到疼痛，但同時也是以一種自我為中心的態度，凡事都以人類為出發點，去假設她們的喜好和需求。」
我們塑造一個美麗的天堂住進去
然後覺得需要一些娛樂
再把動物抓進來
天堂滿了
你說
把尊重和同理心丟掉吧
下禮拜他們就來裝電視了
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