Blissfully Ignorant

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Today at lunchtime, I stopped into a grocery to get something for lunch... I ended up with bread & cheese.. I looked at the rows of turkey & ham hanging there, looking very processed, and all I could think of were filthy meat processing factories... And the thought of fast food, especially after the finger-in-chili incident just wasn't appealing.

I never used to give that kind of thing any thought. Lately, I'd rather go without lunch than eat fast food, et al.. I may have been easier to please when I didn't think about how food is processed.

(Although if I went somewhere and someone served me a turkey sandwich, I would eat it no problem. So it must be the packaging.)

I don't want this thread to be about food though ... People who don't read/watch the news, people who don't seek out interesting books & movies, people who try to keep up with the Joneses & living a cookie-cutter existence ... Do you envy the simplicity of those choices? And what have you chosen to remain blissfully ignorant about?

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that food processing shit, factory farms, the meat industry in general. i am not proud of this.

― CARNIVORE., Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty ignorant of how films are made. I just liked to be swept away in the fantasy.

― andy --, Thursday, 24 March 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm the same wrt films, I used to hang out at USC with my film school buddy and being on the set trying to make sense of all that equipment seemed both overwhelming and extremely tedious, I wouldn't have any fun doing that type of work and would take no joy from knowing how its done.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

'it's' - I'm ignorant of the English language but not blissfully so.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

People who don't read/watch the news, people who don't seek out interesting books & movies, people who try to keep up with the Joneses & living a cookie-cutter existence ... Do you envy the simplicity of those choices? And what have you chosen to remain blissfully ignorant about?

most pop music discussed on ilm i've never heard. how it's discussed on ilm makes me want to keep it that way.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we all make these decisions to a certain extent, otherwise you're an activist on every single issue and the weight of it all crushes you. Perhaps strictly speaking it's less moral but you have to be functional to do any good.

It was really weird when I totally unplugged from political news for a couple of weeks after the November elections.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

that food processing shit, factory farms, the meat industry in general. i am not proud of this.

Ditto. I'm looking into less "cruel" meat suppliers, as it were. I was raised carnivorous, so I'm okay with eating animals, but not so okay with how a lot of those animals are treated before they become food.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

most pop music discussed on ilm i've never heard. how it's discussed on ilm makes me want to keep it that way.

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), March 24th, 2005.

OTM! OTM! OTM!

(yes, that was the sound of 10,000 lambs dying)

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.

Blissfully Ignorant - C/D