Additional Reflections on Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'To tide you over between regular episodes, Robin reads their blog post from April 2023.\\n-----\\nThis is a follow-up to my review of "Feed Them Silence" by Lee Mandelo, involving some thoughts that are too personal to make sense in the review as they swiftly veer away from the text specifically and instead into a broader meta-conversation of books like this which I have read previously, assumed correlations between emotional complexity and humanity, and how processing these thoughts has prompted me to make a change in my own life.\\nCW for discussion of ableism, dehumanization, animal cruelty/death, body-horror-adjacent concepts, and brief mentions of racism and genocide\\n-----\\nWikipedia - Alexithymia\\nWikipedia - Philosophical Zombie\\nWikipedia - Masking\\nIn Defence of De-persons by Johanna Hedva\\nThe Ten Stages of Genocide'