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What does it mean?
Gratitude is depicted as a humiliating weakness reserved for animals.
In plain terms
Thankfulness is seen as weak and degrading.
What can you take from it?
Expecting or feeling gratitude is a sign of weakness.

Where it applies

  • power dynamics
  • social expectations
  • personal philosophy

Putting it to work

  • critiquing social norms
  • analyzing power relations

Questions to consider

  • Is gratitude a strength or weakness?
  • Why do we expect thanks?

Another view

It dismisses a common human virtue as animalistic.

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