That's confusing. How is cooking any different from breeding one's food or from using a gene gun to make one's corn taste more like meat? All my vegan friends go on and on about how seitan and tempeh are perfect foods because they're blank slates, the phenomena of the whole is a systemic effect of the construction. Paleo diets are preferred by linear thinkers.
On 9/22/21 10:26 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > No argument there. No one wants to join my pro-GMO foodie club though. ☹ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:21 AM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] unplanned [sen|obsol]escence > > Well, nothing that relies on the ambiguities of "generations" will ever be > true in any reliable sense. For example, even though I'm on the Boomer side > of GenX, I affiliate with Millenials way better than I do other GenXers. And > my sister, who's at the beginning of GenX, affiliates with the Boomers way > better than GenXers. And people like Renee' hop domains, calling bikers > "hippies", rejecting shoegaze and psytrance but seriously digging numetal ... > maybe for all the sexy bois who dominate it. > > You simply defy the pigeonhole just like every other particular defies all > pigeonholes. It's the whole that matters, not the parts. > > But my objection to Puritanism is similar to the righties' objection to > Wokeism and lefties objection to fascism (or even conformity: > https://justinehsmith.substack.com/p/covid-is-boring). "Clean living" and > "healthy lifestyle" are pseudo-profound bullshit, no better than anti-vax or > QAnon. > > On 9/22/21 10:03 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Is that true? I kind of stopped drinking not because of health or because >> of risk it could create, but just because it doesn't make me feel good. >> And it is kind of expensive. And for what? Sugar and caffeine, now those >> are more serious addictions! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ >> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 9:34 AM >> To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> >> Subject: [FRIAM] unplanned [sen|obsol]escence >> >> Generation X are heavy, risky drinkers. Will anything ever persuade us to >> stop? >> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/22/generation-x-heavy-drinkers-will-anything-persuade-us-to-stop >> >> "There’s one other factor: the odiousness of comparison. Or, to put that >> more simply, generation X was never that extreme, it’s just the millennials, >> or generation sensible, are making us look bad. They drink less overall, and >> are more likely to renounce drinking altogether. Generation Z drink less >> still ..." >> >> "People are so cynical: they say millennials are just taking drugs or >> smoking weed instead. But that’s not the case: we’ve seen declines in all >> drug use." >> >> >> If anything makes me worry about the future of society, it's this Puritanism >> infecting our youngsters. Alcohol is poison. But the other drugs are much >> less so. Maybe, just maybe, we'll see loosening of controls (like marijuana, >> X, and psi) and that will allow DIY body modification, implants, and such to >> flower. It's important to see it as a spectrum. >> > -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
