thinking about this juxtaposition between the human characters and the animal characters in Nope. the animals (jj, the chimp, the horses) are simple, as is natural. they instinctively know what makes them uncomfortable (sudden loud noises, eye contact, getting tricked into eating shit that isn’t food), and when their boundaries are violated, they are understandably angered. jj isn’t capable of understanding the profit-seeking machinations of the humans in its territory. it isn’t capable of signing a contract with jupe. when a crowd of humans appears inside an eye-shaped arena, it doesn’t know that jupe is expecting it to perform for them. it just goes “oh hey, it’s food!” and this isn’t a flaw on jj’s part—it’s a feature. oj and em know this. they’re trained animal handlers, who have spent their whole lives working with creatures that could kill them. they know better than to disrespect a horse or try to force it to meet human expectations. in order to get a horse to listen to you, you have to get on the horse’s level. so why did jupe expect a flying vore roomba from outer space to understand that it was morally wrong to eat people? because capitalism. we Live In A Society (bottom text) in which we’re trained to do unnatural things. we don’t run away from dangerous predators anymore—instead, we run towards them, cameras in hand, because if we survive, we might be able to sell the footage to some rich people in exchange for money. capitalism trains some—the working class—to disregard our own survival instincts and gamble with our lives, and it also trains others—the wealthy bourgeoisie—to expect others to do that for them. that’s not healthy, is it?
maybe it’s time we all returned to monke. (figuratively that is. i’m not an anarcho primitivist lol)