Hi. Good point.
Maybe the value of recipe swapping has to be preceeded by a lot of
(seemingly wasteful) swapping of stuff first.
cheers,
maggie
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 11:43 AM, marco wrote:
> Hi Maggie
>
> an Italian comic actor, Beppe Grillo, once said (more or less):
>
> “Every day a truck full of typical delicious Danish biscuits starts
> from Copenhagen to Milan. Once in Milan, they unload the biscuits, and
> load the truck with “Panettoni” [typical cakes of Milan] to be
> delivered to Denmark. Indeed, it’s good for Danes to eat Italian cakes
> and for Italians to eat Danish cakes….. but why don’t they simply swap
> the recipes???”
>
> Ciao,
> Marco
>
>
> -----Messaggio Originale-----
> Da: Maggie Hettinger
> A: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Data invio: mercoledì 28 agosto 2002 22.08
> Oggetto: MD packaging
>
>
> Hi. I had an interesting value-shift insight this morning. I don't
> think I've seen it discussed.
>
> I'm wondering whether one of the highest-valued processes of our
> universe isn't packaging. Packaging for transportation.
>
> Packaging often (usually? always?) involves a situation in which a
> higher-level process takes substance from a lower-level process and
> redirects it.
>
> Packaging can also be seen as a method by which an entity trapped by
> static patterns is able to escape those patterns.
>
> So, somehow, it should have bearing on the MOQ concept. I don't
> remember
> Pirsig touching on this, though.
>
> I've always wondered why we (and our society) act out values that are
> clearly opposite to our stated and proclaimed values, one of the
> biggest
> anomalies being our willingness to put ourselves and children on a
> dangerous interstate highway on a regular basis, when any other
> activity
> even a thousandth as dangerous would be banned by law and strictly
> enforced. But it's part of a dynamic, growing, packaging system, and
> that value (or something like it) overrides our other social
> &intellectual values.
>
> So anyway, from this point of view many aspects of life that I
> personally tend to consider low-value may be highly valued by the
> greater awareness of the universe. These things come to mind:
>
> Commercialism & capitalism
> Redundant transportation and shipping of goods
> Air-conditioned houses, shopping malls, cars and other examples of
> enclosed units with people inside.
>
> Just a thought, and I (as usual) probably won't be able to follow
> through on it, but if there's anything to it, someone might take it up.
>
> cheers,
> maggie
>
>
>
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