Say you have a culture where you eat communally around a big table with nice slow food and good conversation. The table and dining manners become the foundation for your culture, the place where stories are told and traditions passed down, where the youth are instructed by their elders and taught community respect.
Not say for some reason, maybe a shortage of potatoes, one of the tribe decides he's going to gorge on the potatoes before anybody else gets a helping.
And let's say that he encourages a few others to do the same, not wanting to be the only one getting the cold stares.
And so, in a short time, in order to get enough calories to stay alive, dinner becomes a massive food fight with everybody stuffing themselves as fast as they can.
This is what I referred to in another thread as a race to the bottom.
It's a free country they have and there is no law against eating as much as you can as fast as you can. It's called there free table competition with the best being the fattest and the less successful dying of starvation.
Some wanted to make laws to keep people from eating fast, but they were called nanny state do goodies and folk of great arrogance, pretending to know what was best for others.
This very sort of thing happened when you let white people loose on Indian land. They, the Indians, forgot to hold title to it in a court house in the capital. They thought of it as their table and they ate slow and easy like.
Some want to make a table for health care and some what to take the science classroom off the table so there's more grits.
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Pigs are very successful animals because they are pigs. They will eat huge amounts of almost anything. Runt pigs, however, usually die.
Dinners are successful animals so long as they aren't infected by pigs and they see that all have enough to eat.
What culture do you naturally fit into?
How do pigs protect their rights as pigs.
How do diners save their culture from pigs?
Not say for some reason, maybe a shortage of potatoes, one of the tribe decides he's going to gorge on the potatoes before anybody else gets a helping.
And let's say that he encourages a few others to do the same, not wanting to be the only one getting the cold stares.
And so, in a short time, in order to get enough calories to stay alive, dinner becomes a massive food fight with everybody stuffing themselves as fast as they can.
This is what I referred to in another thread as a race to the bottom.
It's a free country they have and there is no law against eating as much as you can as fast as you can. It's called there free table competition with the best being the fattest and the less successful dying of starvation.
Some wanted to make laws to keep people from eating fast, but they were called nanny state do goodies and folk of great arrogance, pretending to know what was best for others.
This very sort of thing happened when you let white people loose on Indian land. They, the Indians, forgot to hold title to it in a court house in the capital. They thought of it as their table and they ate slow and easy like.
Some want to make a table for health care and some what to take the science classroom off the table so there's more grits.
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Pigs are very successful animals because they are pigs. They will eat huge amounts of almost anything. Runt pigs, however, usually die.
Dinners are successful animals so long as they aren't infected by pigs and they see that all have enough to eat.
What culture do you naturally fit into?
How do pigs protect their rights as pigs.
How do diners save their culture from pigs?