5.22.2007

This is for my brother. (Happy Birthday DAN!!!!)

So I have been doing a lot of discussion lately... as a means of reconsidering the content of the aforementioned presentations (See lower writing) I would like to say that the people I have spoken with have some really good things to say. They have very different approaches, like my fellow facilitators in the Human Ecology course or bible Jim who stands in red square and presents his concerns on a yellow vinyl sign. It's really funny because the more I look the more I see. I see that a lot of people are arriving at the exact same points... (we are very indifferent to the suffering of others, certain institutions are acting with malicious intent, we are all in this together, we need to look into ourselves to find opportunity for change) but we are so conscious of the path that was taken that it is hard to see all of our similarities. I don't know how this relates to Horse racing but it makes me think that we are all moving in the same direction. Maybe we should reconsider our competitive tendencies and try to better understand all of the numerous elements that we do agree upon. (I think I will post a 15 page paper on one example before June 14th.)

Man this blogging thing is silly.

Thanks for the feedback Kelly and as a response:
The current situation of corndogs is very unsustainable. We first need to consider the entire concept of battered meat on sticks and how this impacts our community, our planet and the processes necessary to support our existence. After this consideration is quantified into a matrix expressing the variable impact of different types of Corndog production, we need to decide whether or not our pursuit of the corndog concept is an ethically viable use of resources. (Time, Energy, Matter) It may be that the corndog is impractical but if it is determined to be a worthwhile endeavor, how might we efficiently produce a maximum corndog yield per unit of input into our high performance corndog development system.

1 comment:

Kelly said...

On Corn Dog Production:

O dog sans legs.
You never had a chance to walk.
To see the world beyond your veiled plastic perspective.
To know Life. Organic. Without preservatives.

O corn batter.
Started as manna to the First People.
Transitioned from vital to Jiffy.
Your sacred roots are forgotten.

Produce. Sounds of farm.
But We know production is different.
The dog sans legs ends with a popsicle stick tail.
Covered in generic, corporate-produced corn.
Fried.
By reality.