Thursday, February 28, 2008
Extreme Example of How Envirnments Form Us
One of my assumptions undergirding Fashioning-a-People that our contexts act as containers that provide both opportunity and limitation for our formation. These pictures provide an extreme example of what can happen to watermelons when they move from an open-air environment into a contained space. If this is what happens to watermelons, what do you think happens to people in similar boxes?
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Kegan made visible. I LOVE the visual.
E.
I am struck by how deeply consumerist are boxes presented in the picture are both literally and metaphorically. The watermelons are now square so that they can become a better commodity. I wonder what boxes we are trying to fit into so as to keep up with a consumerist culture, and what is such culture inscribing on our naturally organic forms?
Could square eggs be far behind? That would really help me out in the kitchen!
We definitely all have contexts that enclose us. Many of us accept them, some try to escape them, which is really about expanding them. I wonder about emailing: should we know the context of the person(s) we are sending an email to - or not? Are our emails required to be square-shaped?
RB
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