Systemic Sanitization of Slaughter
Systemic Sanitization of Slaughter designates the structural, psychological, and institutional mechanisms through which modern society conceals, euphemizes, and aesthetically disguises the violent execution of living beings to protect consumers from moral discomfort and empathetic distress. Operating through specialized labor division, automated industrial technologies, spatial segregation, and sanitized terminology, this system erects a totalizing barrier between the act of killing and the act of consumption. By removing blood, screaming, and physical trauma from public visibility, the apparatus ensures that individuals can participate in carnist consumption while maintaining an illusion of moral innocence and civilizational sophistication. The mechanics of Systemic Sanitization of Slaughter function across spatial, linguistic, and visual domains. Physically, slaughterhouses are banished to remote industrial zones, insulated by windowless structures and strict security protocols that prevent external observation. Linguistically, terms associated with living anatomy, fear, and death are systematically replaced by technical and culinary euphemisms such as processing, harvesting, units, or meat cuts, stripping the victim of biographical history and biological reality. Visually, retail markets present dismembered flesh in geometric, clean packaging adorned with pastoral imagery or abstract brand logos, effectively severing the connection between the consumer product and the horrific physical violence required for its creation. Ultimately, Systemic Sanitization of Slaughter maintains the moral hypocrisy of modern civilization by allowing society to indulge in industrial violence without confronting its horrific reality. It obscures the truth of cultivated barbarism, convincing individuals that technological efficiency equals ethical advancement. Overcoming this pervasive illusion demands exposing hidden industrial practices, dismantling the deceptive visual and linguistic disguises surrounding slaughter, and confronting the stark reality of bodily destruction with uncompromising ethical clarity and an unwavering commitment to universal non-harm.
Book · Cannibal
Cannibal by Nima Shahsavari | Critique of Civilized Violence and Janism
Cannibal stands as an uncompromising and explosive philosophical critique by Nima Shahsavari that shatters the polite facades of modern civilization. Through the provocative character of Alex, the work tears down the fragile boundary between civilized dining rituals and raw slaughter, arguing that the pleasure derived from consuming life stems from a shared, unexamined madness. Shahsavari exposes how society uses culinary art, spices, and etiquette merely to disguise the blood and reality of institutionalized violence.Grounded deeply in the philosophy of Janism, the narrative challenges the arbitrary moral hierarchies that condemn the consumption of humans while commodifying the slaughter of other sentient beings. It unmasks how educational systems and domestic environments normalize biological exploitation from early childhood. Refusing physical print publishing to protect ecological life, Cannibal is distributed exclusively as an open-access digital resource, offering an essential manifesto for dismantling masked savagery and returning to an absolute ethic of non-harm.
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