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Three quick things
31/10/13 21:291. Sometimes I like to watch go lectures on YouTube even though I'm not playing at all these days. (I would like to magically get better without having too endure too many more ignominious defeats.) I think these guys are my new OTP. It's just the right amount of dudes-in-glasses-friendly-banter-trash-talking. (Why yes, I do ship Akira/Hikaru!)
2. Recent reading: The Passionate, Accurate Story by Carol Bly, a book on writing short stories from a moral/ethical perspective. My problem with this is that I agree in general strokes with the author's politics (anti-war, anti-environmental destruction, anti-big corporations making nerve gas) but there's a leap for me where her hypothetical stories are about the ethical anxieties of the wives of nerve-gas-company executives, or the wives of nerve-gas-company employees, and noble guys whistleblowing and getting fired. Why not women who are nerve-gas-company executives? Why not husbands of nerve-gas-company executives? More than that, I guess, I feel like no individual decision is going to stop people from making and using nerve gas, and no individual decision is going to stop environmental destruction, and it is a good and noble thing to think about your complicity with the wickedness of the world and try to do your own part to resist it, I really can't find it in my heart to blame someone who's struggling to keep food on the table for going along with any of the terrible parts of the world.
Maybe my real problem with this line of thinking is that it seems to reduce moral complicity to the people who work in terrible industries and the people who are married to them. That's too simple, I think.
This may be a book I need to read twice to get what I need to get from it, after I've thrashed all this around for a bit.
3. Hilarious fusion cooking: made a simplified version of the potato flatbread stuffing in Vegan Eats World, forgot the tomatoes. Put it on a taco, it was good anyway.
Ate leftovers with ketchup. EVEN BETTER. Mmmm. (It's the acidity, I think.)
2. Recent reading: The Passionate, Accurate Story by Carol Bly, a book on writing short stories from a moral/ethical perspective. My problem with this is that I agree in general strokes with the author's politics (anti-war, anti-environmental destruction, anti-big corporations making nerve gas) but there's a leap for me where her hypothetical stories are about the ethical anxieties of the wives of nerve-gas-company executives, or the wives of nerve-gas-company employees, and noble guys whistleblowing and getting fired. Why not women who are nerve-gas-company executives? Why not husbands of nerve-gas-company executives? More than that, I guess, I feel like no individual decision is going to stop people from making and using nerve gas, and no individual decision is going to stop environmental destruction, and it is a good and noble thing to think about your complicity with the wickedness of the world and try to do your own part to resist it, I really can't find it in my heart to blame someone who's struggling to keep food on the table for going along with any of the terrible parts of the world.
Maybe my real problem with this line of thinking is that it seems to reduce moral complicity to the people who work in terrible industries and the people who are married to them. That's too simple, I think.
This may be a book I need to read twice to get what I need to get from it, after I've thrashed all this around for a bit.
3. Hilarious fusion cooking: made a simplified version of the potato flatbread stuffing in Vegan Eats World, forgot the tomatoes. Put it on a taco, it was good anyway.
Ate leftovers with ketchup. EVEN BETTER. Mmmm. (It's the acidity, I think.)