Week 7 Lectorial was cancelled. I remember rocking up to class and finding the classroom empty. Actually thrilled to go home, i went home to take a nap. Anyhow instead of  lectorial notes, i will be writing about the reading ‘Why look at animals’ by John berger. It was a very persuasive piece about how it wasn’t natural for  animals to all be living in zoos or petted at homes, that they become a creature of a whole other kind when they are raised to be so dependent. There were quite a few words that didn’t know but found out through the reading such as…

• Totalitarianism: A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
• Marginalisation: Treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral.
• totemism: System of belief in which humans are said to have kinship or a mystical relationship with a spirit-being, such as an animal or plant.
• oracular: Relating to an oracle, (of an utterance, advice, etc.) hard to interpret; enigmatic.
• verisimilitude: The appearance of being true or real

Not only did i learn the definitions of these words but reading this text made me perceive going to zoos in a whole different light. As John points out how close the glass or the bars between the animals and the audiences don’t change the fact that animals are still being marginalised and mistreated. Never ever have i thought this deeply into the marginalisation of animals and how we as a society’s thoughts are all very selfish in a  way.