Can theory side of tumblr explain why cats are so chill?
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*Zizek voice* ideologically, the cat is chill because it is the perfect anti-capitalist animal due to its relationship with desire being precisely that which cannot sustain capitalism. This is because the desire of the cat is not to buy or to possess, but to indulge in what it is provided rather than what is obtained through the exchange of capital. He eats, he sleeps, he eats, he sleeps, he purrs, and then he sleeps *gesticulates wildly* again. Yet, at some level, this upsets us. We go so far as to establish mythologies about the cat to replace this absence of a desire to participate in capitalist exchange: Felix with his magic bag, Top Kat with his connections to organized crime, and most commonly, Garfield and his lasagna. However, a cat will only eat lasagna if it is provided to him. His desire is not for the lasagna, it is for the act of being provided for, to be chill, and thus independent of the ideological implications of capitalist exchange.
