Let's consider popeye the sailor, who grows stronger with spinach.
But it is not really the spinach. It is the can. Mass production, logistics. The rationalization of nature's most fundamental process, the acquisition of calories, the original burden (remember that it is only Fallen Man who must work to feed himself). The final triumph over postlapsarity. Suck it, God! No wonder You're dead You were never alive to begin with You old fuck.
The final triumph* over nature, our old adversary. Here, Man's quest to master his physical environment meets its symbolic conclusion. To be sure some puzzles remain, but these are but playthings beside our old nemesis.
And the can! The Industry whereby we rise from stupid dirty smelly old Nature. The metal, the cleanliness!
Save us, Industry!
And America found redemption. Dominance! We win! Hooray.
Now we have a wonderful can. What shall we put in it? Into the can we shall put something which is good for you.
What is good for you? Nature is good for you.
What is the thing that most contains the essence of Nature? Our studies show that spinach most contains the essence of Nature. We believe this 86 percent.
We shall become chivalrous torpedoes of freedom.
1) Escape 2) Lack 3) Uplift 4) Now you understand Hegel! 5) Repeat
On January 05 2013 14:07 sam!zdat wrote: you are absolutely not stupid. please don't say such slanderous things about yourself.
That is what THEY want you to think
I thought THEY wanted us to think we're smart when we're actually not.
No. THEY want you to think that THEY want you to think that you're smart when you're actually not, but actually THEY want you to think that you're not when you actually are.
oh, and P.S. - wtf is this
This is actually a fairly clever point about popeye the sailor and American ideology, but I didn't feel like trying to explain all academic-like so I wrote a poem instead in order to try to provoke people into thinking about something.
I read a study earlier that said spinach only contains 13% essence of nature. That's a much more believable figure in my opinion. However the truth is, we don't know how much essence of nature is in spinach. it's really hard to isolate. It keeps squirming into experimental error, contaminating placebos and such. But if we can manage to study it or isolate it properly, I think essence of nature will revolutionize modern medicine.
This was either an enormous mindfuck, or I think I just punked by symbolism in a children's show. EDIT: OHHH This is where Hegellian dialectic comes from isn't it .
They just wanted kids to eat spinach because it's good for you. They didn't put it in a can for symbolism, they did it because they didn't have nice refrigerated transportation from Argentina to bring farm-crisp spinach to your table in January. You had canned spinach because that's what would last through winter. No one ate that stuff because of the taste.
You might as well write a post about the colonial tyranny of Spam.
On January 05 2013 17:06 phantomfive wrote: They just wanted kids to eat spinach because it's good for you. They didn't put it in a can for symbolism, they did it because they didn't have nice refrigerated transportation from Argentina to bring farm-crisp spinach to your table in January. You had canned spinach because that's what would last through winter. No one ate that stuff because of the taste.
Yes, we're both right!
You might as well write a post about the colonial tyranny of Spam.
On January 05 2013 14:07 sam!zdat wrote: you are absolutely not stupid. please don't say such slanderous things about yourself.
That is what THEY want you to think
I thought THEY wanted us to think we're smart when we're actually not.
No. THEY want you to think that THEY want you to think that you're smart when you're actually not, but actually THEY want you to think that you're not when you actually are.
On January 05 2013 14:07 sam!zdat wrote: you are absolutely not stupid. please don't say such slanderous things about yourself.
That is what THEY want you to think
I thought THEY wanted us to think we're smart when we're actually not.
No. THEY want you to think that THEY want you to think that you're smart when you're actually not, but actually THEY want you to think that you're not when you actually are.
Who are they, by the way?
It's not important who THEY are, it's just important to know what THEY want from you. "Che voui?"
On January 05 2013 14:07 sam!zdat wrote: you are absolutely not stupid. please don't say such slanderous things about yourself.
That is what THEY want you to think
I thought THEY wanted us to think we're smart when we're actually not.
No. THEY want you to think that THEY want you to think that you're smart when you're actually not, but actually THEY want you to think that you're not when you actually are.
On January 05 2013 14:07 sam!zdat wrote: you are absolutely not stupid. please don't say such slanderous things about yourself.
That is what THEY want you to think
I thought THEY wanted us to think we're smart when we're actually not.
No. THEY want you to think that THEY want you to think that you're smart when you're actually not, but actually THEY want you to think that you're not when you actually are.
Ugh, yes. The most honest, most accurate answer to most questions, "I don't know", is deemed stupid. The most sterile attitude, unfounded certitude, is deemed acceptable at best, confident at worse.
Also, I'm a firm believer that the can was a good thing (in short, progress) but the making of cans has put a small elite in such a comfortable, solid position that I sometimes doubt it. Nobility stood on tradition, globalized oligarchy stands on... everything and everything stands on it! Too big to fail, too big to fall...
In my opinion, the eventual goal will be to put a new world inside the can, and then all of us will live in that world. Because the world which spinach belongs to is rather hostile and cruel.
are you kidding? I fucking love spinach. Actually I wrote this blog because I was eating some spinach at the time and really enjoying it. But the kind in the can is not very good, gotta get that shit fresh
On January 20 2013 10:56 sam!zdat wrote: are you kidding? I fucking love spinach. Actually I wrote this blog because I was eating some spinach at the time and really enjoying it. But the kind in the can is not very good, gotta get that shit fresh
Spinach has too much iron to eat regularly though. And I'm lazy about washing vegetables, so I most likely ingest traces of feces when I eat fresh spinach. I am much more a broccoli, kale, and collard greens kind of guy. I used to have a bearded dragon when I was younger and he would sit next to me eating kale all the time. Although, he ate cockroaches too so not sure if he's a reliable authority when it comes to food.
ahahhaa they are interesting animals, but i was disappointed when after spending years nurturing, caring for, and cleaning my spiky beast, it still looked at me with cold, reptilian completely unfeeling eyes.
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