grumpyThe Endless Game
January 21st 2008 22:43
It seems to me that when we are "deciding what we are going to do when we grow up" for the first time, the machine offers us a dozen different types of hamburger and we are not so much tempted but driven by society to make a choice. The problem is: what if you want - or need - something other than hamburger?
The second time of choice appears to me far more as a connected series of mini choices which gradually lead you somewhere near where you want to be, like a slow and infinitely discriminative refinement of the possible ways to utilise and serve basic hamburger ingredients - out of which, for instance it is possible to make a quite passable pizza.
One finds however that, no matter how one tries to make it do so, the machine is unable to dispense anything from which one might fashion something new, and so (a) garnishing one's latest creation only to find this apex of culinary art has already been reached and never surpassed by millions of ones ancestors, and (b) watching the never ending recreation of nothing but execrable Big Mac variant's presented to the world as crowning achievements within a socio/economic hamburger machine which now offers even less choice - I find tiresome, tedious, and endlessly frustrating.
Consciousness is a drag.
The second time of choice appears to me far more as a connected series of mini choices which gradually lead you somewhere near where you want to be, like a slow and infinitely discriminative refinement of the possible ways to utilise and serve basic hamburger ingredients - out of which, for instance it is possible to make a quite passable pizza.
Consciousness is a drag.
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