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Language and Communication
It's not just narratively significant that she's the only one who speaks because of course it is one of your clues that she's been switched from someone on the on the surface but i i think that there's also a political point in that as well about language and communication right now. The scissors to me is a way to introduce castration to the people on the surface so they have all this kind of uh... competition about commodities going on. It's an interesting way in which marks and froid come together disavowal of lack fetishism of commodities those things are the same those things work hand in hand in order to keep this underclass invisible, he says.
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