What’s for Dinner? – Demons at NY Times Are Now Pushing Cannibalism Insisting “The Time Is Now”

Gateway Pundit ^ | 7/23/2022 | Jim Hoft

[bravo whiskey]

Shouldn’t the headline read WHO’S for dinner?

[dfwgator]

Good catch.

[dfwgator]

You know you’re in trouble when you ask for a menu, and they hand you a mirror.

[daniel1212]

"If you skip past GP's reposting of Twitter claims and READ THE ACTUAL STORY, you'll find the NYT is NOT saying "now is the time for cannibalism." If anything, the article is pushing a vegan lifestyle and saying that anyone who's not an urban woke POS is inclined to cannibalism.... If I didn't know better, I'd say GP is a NeverTrumper front org trying to making conservatives look stupid. "

posters who only post a smidgen of the 300 words normally allowed for excerpts, and do not try to provide the substance of the article in that excerpt - and rely on Twitter as primary sources - are part of the problem.

As to your conclusion, actually I think the article is reporting on a phenomenon and implicitly asking why Cannibalism is unthinkable. Below is a 204 word (counted here) excerpt, plus the image:

An image came to Chelsea G. Summers...and his liver served Tuscan style, on toast...That figment of her twisted imagination is what prompted Ms. Summers to write her novel, “A Certain Hunger,” about a restaurant critic with a taste for (male) human flesh.

Turns out, cannibalism has a time and a place. In the pages of some recent stomach-churning books, and on television and film screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that that time is now...

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The creator was horrified by her own monster. Publishers may have been, too. When Ms. Summers, who uses a pseudonym, was shopping the book around in 2018, it was rejected more than 20 times before Audible and the Unnamed Press made an offer...

cannibalism has occurred around the world throughout history, lending these fictional tales a queasy whiff of “what if?”

As to what may be fueling the desire for cannibalism stories today, Ms. Lyle, the “Yellowjackets” co-creator, said, “I think that we’re obviously in a very strange moment.” She listed the pandemic, climate change, school shootings and years of political cacophony as possible factors.

“I feel like the unthinkable has become the thinkable,” Ms. Lyle said, “and cannibalism is very much squarely in that category of the unthinkable.”

[Bon of Babble]

According to Dictionary.com and Britannica.com the word "cannibalism" - as stated in the headline of the article - specifically means eating of HUMAN flesh:

Britannica:

1. cannibalism, also called anthropophagy, eating of human flesh by humans.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/cannibalism-human-behaviour Dictionary.com:

1. the eating of human flesh by another human being.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/

But I'm sure, as you said, the NY Times only meant the article to be about how to become a vegan.

[Bon of Babble]

I’m sure the NY Time didn’t mean actual “cannibalism” - as stated in the headline - and as defined by Dictionary.com and Britannica.com as the:

“eating of human flesh by humans.” (Britannica.com)

“the eating of human flesh by another human being” (Dictionary.com)

They were just telling us we should all switch to a vegan diet - and that the word “cannibalism” doesn’t mean the “eating of human flesh by another human” at all.

Not a misleading headline at all, no, not at all.

[clearcarbon]

"Demons at NY Times Are Now Pushing Cannibalism Insisting 'The Time Is Now'"

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Reluctant Cannibal

[Publius]

It’s rare to run across Flanders & Swann fans anywhere,

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I love them. And have gotten the kids hooked. "Mud, Mud, glorious Mud!" Not many happy songs about mud out there.

When ever I am in a thrift shop I look for old comedy records. There is a lot of stuff out there that is roll on the ground funny but will never be available in any other medium because it does not fit with their sensibilities.

[Publius]

“In the Bath” is still my favorite.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A good one. I like "Bedstead Men" because of the line "watch the wall my darling, while the bedstead men go by!"

It works on two levels.

[Publius]

Not to mention “Have Some Madeira, My Dear.”

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And of course, "The Armadillo."

"I left him to his singing
Cycled home without a pause/
Never tell a man the truth/
About the one that he adores!"

True wisdom there!

[daniel1212]

" But I'm sure, as you said, the NY Times only meant the article to be about how to become a vegan. "

Except that I did not say that, but is "reporting on a phenomenon and implicitly asking why Cannibalism is unthinkable." And as I could have added, thus implicitly challenging that premise.

[DownInFlames]

Yep. Cannibalism will destroy a brain. The human body will not tolerate the human flesh. Cooked or raw.

[jmcenanly]

IIRC correctly, the climate in the location of the movie was swelteringly hot, and the common people had no access to air conditioning except for the entrance to the Soylent processing centers. It was where you went when you had had enough.