Fantastic beasts: The secrets of cognitive dissonance
I recently watched the second fantastic beasts movie and noticed something.
Without spoiling too much there is a magical creature in the movie which is separated from its mother (who is murdered). The creature itself is also murdered by the primary antagonist and then reanimated as a corpse.
This part of the movie was clearly kept to indicate the ‘ruthless, scrupleless, and selfish’ character who would go to any lengths to fulfill their own desires. How they communicated this was how this antagonist would go to any lengths by even killing an innocent creature.
All this while people are busy ignoring all that we do to poor animals everyday. This is the same shit as how people cringe at countries who eat dog and cat meat while devouring beef, bacon, chicken and what not.
Posted Sep 25, 2022, 3:34 AM UTC
It's so ingrained in people minds they don't even think about it. It's like the water being wet for them. I've seen Eastern TV where there's animals that meditate or follow buddha and then become powerful enough to change their form and interact with humans. And it's like wow so amazing we love them. Then next scene they show someone eating a chicken as a joke. I'm like that chicken could have also done what those animals did according to the story. Hurts my head. But at least it tends to lean towards vegetarian associated with kindness overall. Like a vegetarian character is considered very kind