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> is that conversations about what is wrong and how wrong it is depend so heavily on the very first thing you put your faith in Rationalwiki article [0] about
by Agraillo 4y ago
> is that conversations about what is wrong and how wrong it is depend so heavily on the very first thing you put your faith in
Rationalwiki article [0] about the topic has a nice epigraph
”It’s a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable, it’s very wrong to say it’s a suspension bridge.
—Stuart Bloom, The Big Bang Theory"
though I won't be totaly surprised suddenly learning about a cargo (tomato/bridge) cult ...
[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong
- b112 4y agoit’s a suspension bridge Yet it is one! Consider, how it defies classification by society, and instead, prefers to be classified as it choses. As it needs to be! Thus, the tomato can be a bridge of understanding, to those who identify differently than their birth. And beyond this, the tomato is a 'new world' plant. Its plucky ability to waltz in, and disrupt local cuisine, to supplant old world recipes, is a perfect bridge to understand the goal of most startups. And religiously, the tomato, when first discovered, was thought by some to be the devil's food. The X markings inside a tomato, were thought to be warnings from god, for they resembled a cross. So the tomato can be an example of rational vs religious thought, a way to bridge an understanding as to how our ancestors thought. A physical bridge only takes you to physical places, but the tomato is a bridge to enlightenment. It is more a bridge, than a bridge!!
- tristor 4y agoWhat a fantastic example of literary post-modernism.