I could see you and I doing that, brother. But we and what army?
Discussion
Everyone in my immediate and second immediate circle would do that. Some are already doing it.
It’s not because we live in advanced societies that we can afford to think this way.
The societies we live in are advanced because of whatever makes us think this way.
However, I can never see eastern societies like India or China do that no matter how much technological advancement they achieve.
I think Catholics have a weird edge because we have so many examples of people living purposeful lives without day jobs. Nuns and monks and the saints' stories, and etc.
I could happily spend all day just being a papist. LOL
Exactly. It’s a civilizational issue rather than economical.
People mock the vegans (or their twins, the carnivores), but they've clearly caught on to the Excessive Surplus Problem and are finding ways to deal with the glut of food, by being more exacting in what they eat.
I sort of do the same, by reintroducing the fasting calendar. We keep doubling-down on it, but I think it's just our way of reducing our choices in What To Eat Today down to a smaller and smaller set of options.
As in, "Today is Friday. On Fridays, I eat fish. Perhaps I should also eat fish on Wednesdays, like in the bygone era. And roast only on Sundays..."
I used to wonder about the fasting calendar. So many rules and traditions, and everything so exacting and finicky, but now it makes more sense to me. It's a way of dealing with both surplus and deficit.
If there is too much food, you limit yourself by using the calendar.
If there is not enough food, on a regular basis, you train yourself to tolerate a poor diet, even when food is plentiful.
And those are just the pragmatic side effects. It's good for our bodies as well as our souls.
On average, Catholics should generally avoid becoming obese just by observing the Lenten fast, and perhaps Advent as well.
Need the Advent fast, and the Embertides. That's when we all stuff our faces, the most.
There are tons of weird advantages to being a papist. It is the biggest evolutionary hack since mitochondria.
It's almost as if the infusion of divine life into a person changes that person.
Yeah, funny that.
Funny how that works.
Well, nevermind. Probably not important.
We were speaking about the price of rice in China...
We were…
Because we were talking about surplus…
And here I am, thinking it's just a euphemism.
Yes, hello. How was the weather today ?
Oh, it was fine. Because I ate all of my dinner, last night.
(That only makes sense in German.)
Oui oui mon amie
