a subversive act of playful cleverness

Sat, 04 Sep 2004

I guess most of people that knows me already knows I'm vegetarian, well this week I had a couple of funny experiences about it. So here I go.
The good: I was introduced to the lady who serves the food and they told her that I'm vegetarian, and she said: "how cute!" heh that's was cool and she said it without any kind of sacarsm, it was real, that's why is cool.
The bad (for society): We were talking at lunch and one asked me: "Rudy, when you are hungry, what do you think of?, I mean when I'm hungry I think of beef and roasted chicken, do you think about carrots, a fresh tomato, a home grown hughe lettuce, that kind of things?" I just laughed and think inside "geez and we allow them to breathe" }:> hahaha.

This also has to do with people who live in a "lego world", once there's one piece that doesn't fit or there's something broken, their world collapses they feel helpless and they don't know what to do. Such things happens at different levels of our society, for instance suits working at corps, couples, some religious, people who does what they don't like and are always complaining about it but never try to do something about it "because that's how it works", etc. They can't think of there's a plenty open doors and they just know the one most people goes into. I just can think of them and feel for them, I hope one day we can have people like our ancestors who went their own way and who ruled their own world and did what they liked to do. Hopefully there are there are people who lives that way, blesses to them, that's why this world keeps surviving.

update: Just found this interesting link on Debian planet of a Paul Graham's article about Nerds being unpopular but it talks about esential aspects of our "modern" society, good reading, I encourage you to read it.
I wonder why i didn't went to the sociology school :)

* Note that I don't use the term "veggan" or "half vegetarian", to discriminate people that have different "levels" of vegetarianism, since I don't think one can be half-something in such things, I mean one can't be half-alcoholic or half-smoker, or half-gay (I don't have anything against them), since they are options one chooses and it happens that people have levels of practicing their options but they already *have* choosen such option. So when I have to name a vegetarian who also eats eggs and fish I said that way, for me vegetarian is non-animal products on my food, there could be of course people who are vegatarians *but also* eat some animal-origin food and that's fine, that doesn't makes them less or more vegetarians. Of course one can argue that if most of those people's meals are made of animal products, there's no vegetarianism at all, and I could agree about it.

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