Cannibalism, that event considered so barbaric: Humanity consuming humanity? Yes. It is spoken of as an indelible past, but little mentioned and tolerable. It alludes to the most barbaric and merciless acts that human beings carried out hundreds of years ago...committed? Past?
I don't think so. 2019, full social cannibalism. It never went away, it just transformed.
Our days pass between the to-and-fro of grasping and reacting, we cannot imagine ourselves without necessarily being immersed in society, no longer after being at least some of the time.
We continue to consume ourselves. We continue to reproduce in a very internalized way our social, cultural, moral, political and all the referent patterns. It seems that the process is getting worse, that our need to consume ourselves as beings that are useful is more and more vile and shameless, it is even normal.
I don't eat a piece of your thigh or your leg, now it is more ephemeral; I use you, I criticize you, I judge you, I trample you, I call you only to have sex, I look for you only to fill for moments the emptiness I possess, I make you cry and blame you because “it was your doing”, I tear you to pieces emotionally, I feed my ego extracting your vitamins... and finally, after I consumed and used you, I throw you away, like leftovers in a meal.
Cannibalism, this now social event, is no longer considered barbaric.
Humanity consuming humanity.
Photography by Missy Prince
Indigo mode.