[ SECRET POST #5516 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5516 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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08. [SPOILERS for Book of Boba Fett or maybe Attack of the Clones]




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09. [SPOILERS for Space Brothers/Uchuu Kyoudai]




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10. [SPOILERS for Eternals Mid-Credits Scene]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OP here. I haven't seen this particular cover before, but it looks like an astronaut from the past got cryogenically frozen and woke up during the Instrumentality of Man. The Underpeople are genetically engineered entities made from various types of animals like cats, dogs, cattle, snakes, etc. They're designed to look human and are sentient, but are not legally considered people by humanity and are treated as servants. It's Smith's treatise on exploitation and slavery, basically.

[(Anonymous)]

He did some weird and wonderful stuff, it's true.

[tabaqui]

That sounds very funky.

[meadowphoenix]

That's a very annoying way many many authors decide to write on exploitation and slavery.

[(Anonymous)]

How so?

in this essay i will...

[meadowphoenix]

I should start by saying that I'm talking about authors who are saying some form of "exploitation and slavery is bad" I'm not talking about Randian authors.

First, human slavery irl is usually justified either by conquest and/or by post-hoc dehumanization. The dehumanization of labor is something that has to be worked at with sustained othering, so it begins after people have decided on conquest and/or subjugation. The dehumanization is NOT for the purpose of conquest or subjugation, those impulses can be justified by "threats" and "defense" or "safety" and often are. The dehumanization is for the the enslaver or exploiter to feel that they have retained their humanity even by being inhumane. If you start with a state of actual lack of humanity, you have missed something very fundamental about exploitation and slavery in the first place, to the point where I think any explication of those ills fails both with a lack of thoughtfulness and in conveyance to the audience. As a side note, as a person who is part of a people who were included with animals for a significant amount of recent history, no matter the intention it always reads as though the book philosophy is saying "yes they are animals, but that doesn't mean you should treat them like that" which is a shitty feeling.

Second it is rare for these authors to write on animal husbandry or domestication as also bad and that creates an incoherent premise, imo. If the idea is that these genetically engineered semi-animal, semi-human beings shouldn't be exploited or enslaved, but that it's fine for animals to be, you have introduced that there is a line of sentience that matters, rather than like...species, but won't say where it is. What is human enough? Something similar occurs with robots and cyborgs. There may be also some ableist implications, but that depends on the story.

Third, there is the creation aspect of this (also in robot/cyborg explications of slavery and exploitation). This is much less of an annoyance, but I do think the creator-creation dynamic means that exploitation is a different concept entirely than exploitation in domination of an already existing culture, so while this is fine for class, it's weirder for slavery and I would not conflate the two. But I do think there's a use in exploring secondary class dynamics, which occurs within cultures anyway.

Re: in this essay i will...

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

But these are great points!