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im in a class called "Tribal Food Systems", and honestly, for a class young STEM me would have dismissed, they intuitively and deeply get some of the things about relationality i would struggle to communicate to philosophers or psychologists over 5 years
e.g., i get weirded out by the very technic, academic, dare i say colonial interest in "sustainable agriculture", "organic food", "regenerative agriculture" it all strikes me as so left-hemisphere, and technic https://t.co/F1WojwDRYM
at a "regenerative syntropical agriculture farm" that a rich person bought and invited all their friends to to try to create exciting new projects with and until i just ran into some indigenous people who just happened to be walking around, i just felt ungrounded
even when the modern industrial urban academics have learned everything they think there is to know about ecology... when they have extracted all the knowledge about how to grow which vegetable where and when...
it feels like they will have missed something. like there's something non-negotiably spiritual here https://t.co/yjNI3toUJb
they'll have missed the way people live in reciprocity with the land and the food https://t.co/z41F98zZ7o
they'll have missed the way the food is tasted https://t.co/D8U6aKvGSj
growing up as a guy in a modern, industrialised society, with plenty money—food is something i ordered in food felt like a swappable commodity. milk and eggs were just another one of the things you could order versus a complex chickpea dish or steak salad
they'll have missed all the relationality, because relationality wasn't real to them https://t.co/2PE9cEyLOK
obligation isn't real. it's an extraneous thing. not part of the "thing" because the scope of "things" here is entirely different https://t.co/w4Yd2qAfJH
to think our obligations end with the purchase is to mistake the system of private property we have set up with reality it's take the lines that define and trace that system are all that exist, and let them define all that exists for us it's sad. it's untenable. and it's inaccurate
a relationality that does not take money and individual survival and the view of all objects as dead as default and universal but has a memory of something else https://t.co/xroZ0olmau
@AskYatharth im curious does hindi retain the agentic association of linguistic gender? thread about linguistics that is actually about what you're talking about here https://t.co/2UCGAaWeDM