Comments on: Wishing you and yours a carbon neutral Christmas http://www.adub.net/blog/2006/12/24/wishing-you-and-yours-a-carbon-neutral-christmas/ tracking the convergence of design, technology and sustainability Mon, 11 May 2009 10:36:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tom Shapland http://www.adub.net/blog/2006/12/24/wishing-you-and-yours-a-carbon-neutral-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Tom Shapland Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:22:47 +0000 http://www.adub.net/blog/?p=11#comment-4 I had an email from my brother in Africa posted on my desk back when I was writing for the Aggie. It had all kinds of thought provoking ideas in it. "Women are for talking to, milk is for tuberculosis" was one of them. Another one, which I think about often, was couched in his complaints that when he leaves the village for the city, he can't stop eating ice cream. "I am a consumer, born and bred." I am a consumer. Born and bred. But I think a modest Christmas is happier than a lavish one. That being said, I still think you are a scrooge. Not because of your Christmas gifts this year, but because deep down inside, I know you, Alan Wells. About the quote you gave me...what percent of the people do you think actually have that private, less dramatic wear-and-tear? I think the author and the Stern put the chicken before the egg. It isn't a question of whether or not some writers have the ability to transform psychic entropy...it's that some have psychic entropy and some don't. Most people don't have the grains of sand because they aren't AWARE of their grains of sand. The writers who "convert the negative" do so because they are unable to duck the pain. The greatest artists did what they did because they had no choice. It was survival. Not that I'm lumping myself in with the likes of them. I don't think I'm a genius...we've been over this. You're a scrooge, I'm not a genius. It's just that, how can you say everyone has psychic entropy if you have ever been to Soga's? tshap I had an email from my brother in Africa posted on my desk back when I was writing for the Aggie. It had all kinds of thought provoking ideas in it. “Women are for talking to, milk is for tuberculosis” was one of them. Another one, which I think about often, was couched in his complaints that when he leaves the village for the city, he can’t stop eating ice cream. “I am a consumer, born and bred.”

I am a consumer. Born and bred. But I think a modest Christmas is happier than a lavish one. That being said, I still think you are a scrooge. Not because of your Christmas gifts this year, but because deep down inside, I know you, Alan Wells.

About the quote you gave me…what percent of the people do you think actually have that private, less dramatic wear-and-tear? I think the author and the Stern put the chicken before the egg. It isn’t a question of whether or not some writers have the ability to transform psychic entropy…it’s that some have psychic entropy and some don’t. Most people don’t have the grains of sand because they aren’t AWARE of their grains of sand. The writers who “convert the negative” do so because they are unable to duck the pain. The greatest artists did what they did because they had no choice. It was survival.

Not that I’m lumping myself in with the likes of them. I don’t think I’m a genius…we’ve been over this. You’re a scrooge, I’m not a genius. It’s just that, how can you say everyone has psychic entropy if you have ever been to Soga’s?

tshap

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