tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post1006490797356329229..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: IKEA HumansJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-25091748813211513502017-09-24T14:18:43.273-04:002017-09-24T14:18:43.273-04:00Things look easy from afar. Reality is that if you...Things look easy from afar. Reality is that if you try to replicate those things you will find that there is some kind of difficulty or skill that you lack... Nothing is as easy as it looks. It always takes more time, more skill, and more materials than you think.<br />There is an ‘ecosystem’ to each culture, human, forest, garden, etc. Take it apart, remove some components, and you will fall into the pit called ‘unintended consequences’. Remove a top predator from a forest and you unleash problems throughout that ecosystem. Remove a blind man’s eyes for cosmetic purposes and you remove his circadian rhythms. I’ve know folks who went in for a small operation and died due to the ‘cascade’ effect, where just touching one thing unbalances their whole system. <br />This author, looking through his arrogant prism, is thinking that a simple change, reverting to ‘Tradition’ will change the world for the better. No, it won’t. You will disrupt a balanced system that has evolved for a reason. What that reason is, seems to me, to make these people’s lives worth living.Susihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08491909280925749677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-84712911315134831942017-09-24T14:08:53.443-04:002017-09-24T14:08:53.443-04:00Biagetti is obviously biased and wrong. What he ca...Biagetti is obviously biased and wrong. What he calls "this class of people" is not a class at all. It's a mixture of very different people, even if they have a common economic situation. Many of them can be nationalists, comunitarians, adventurers, solitary, ermits, permanent voyagers, belong to aid ONGs, emigrants in the arctic or Morocco. So they don't fit in the class the author is talking about. So he has to use words like probably and take uncertain conclusions.Mário R. Gonçalveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10663310362534590729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-32858032498878574242017-09-24T11:06:00.182-04:002017-09-24T11:06:00.182-04:00Hear, hear. I would add that virtually any human ...Hear, hear. I would add that virtually any human life, including the most heroic, is shreddable by a writer minded to do so, in the way that Biagetti shreds poor Jennifer and Jason. Indeed a hopeless quest to make oneself unshreddable motivates much human striving. But Biagetti's--as you say, probably self-targeted--skills at shredding are so powerful that I don't think he's going to find an answer in tradition. Maybe he should try something like Zen Buddhism, or Prozac.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08993570411881726772noreply@blogger.com