Paper or plastic?
for here or to go?
skimmed or two percent?
Italian bread or wheat?
mozarella or provolone?
bad or worse?
Choosing from within a single category makes us blind and delusive. One gets a false sense of power, freedom and even feels special. The walls are invisible and the doors are few and out of reach. Select from a hundred flavours of ice cream, tens of crackers, cookies, chips and what-nots. Spend all your time in the supermarket, bookstore, restaurants or best - at home in front of the t.v. watching different groups of people try to push a ball into a hoop or whack it out of a park every other weekend.
It works for a host of people because then we forget to spend time looking at the choices that matter: who controls what we see, hear, get, etc. Who owns the banks, who decides the law makers, the world leaders, forms of governance, tax policies. As these issues get sidelined, the true quality of life declines. But it is a slow death, making it easy to overlook. The few people who care to pay attention need to be appreciated.
for here or to go?
skimmed or two percent?
Italian bread or wheat?
mozarella or provolone?
bad or worse?
Choosing from within a single category makes us blind and delusive. One gets a false sense of power, freedom and even feels special. The walls are invisible and the doors are few and out of reach. Select from a hundred flavours of ice cream, tens of crackers, cookies, chips and what-nots. Spend all your time in the supermarket, bookstore, restaurants or best - at home in front of the t.v. watching different groups of people try to push a ball into a hoop or whack it out of a park every other weekend.
It works for a host of people because then we forget to spend time looking at the choices that matter: who controls what we see, hear, get, etc. Who owns the banks, who decides the law makers, the world leaders, forms of governance, tax policies. As these issues get sidelined, the true quality of life declines. But it is a slow death, making it easy to overlook. The few people who care to pay attention need to be appreciated.
1 comment:
Nice. We're so often caught worrying about irrelevant choices :D
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