The work's genius isn't that it shows suffering—it's that it shows how ordinary people become capable of murder through paperwork. The Metamorphosis operates as instruction manual for ordinary evil, and readers miss this because they're too busy feeling sorry for the bug. Gregor never stops being human. That's not ambiguity—it's the text's central fact. An … Continue reading Kafka’s Genocide Manual
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Gardener’s Vision
"Without communication, connection, and empathy, it becomes easy for actors to take on the “gardener’s vision”: to treat those they are acting upon as less human or not human at all and to see the process of interacting with them as one of grooming, of control, of organization. This organization, far from being a laudable … Continue reading Gardener’s Vision
