“Infantilism, the main characteristic of today's "developed societies", animalizes man by humanizing animals, enslaves man by "liberating" nature and stupefies man by intellectualizing machines. In a word, infantilism demeans man by exalting everything that is inhuman.” Animal RightsEnvironmentalismDegradationInhumanityAnimal LiberationChildishnessInfantilizationIntellectualizationAnthropomorphizationInfantilism Author:Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
“The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.” WritingSanityPathetic FallacyAnthropomorphizationConsensual Reality Book:Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction Source: Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
“There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.” DogsAnthropomorphismDogs HumourDogs SpeakAnthropomorphizationAnthropomorphizing Book:Changing Planes Source: Changing Planes