Comments on: Pronking Towards Bethlehem http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:49:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gena Marshall http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-1097 Gena Marshall Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:24:20 +0000 http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-1097 My hero, Matt Ridley has written some good stuff on pronking in the human and animal world. He lumps the majority of people's self-destructive behavior into the class of pronking, his main example is drug taking. Although had he known he could have also used consuming homeade rice wine and an example! Bathtub sake as we call it. Pronking/potlach is interesting stuff. And could be fun. But the golf course form of pronking? Guess I'm not a golfer, so I'm not very objective, but what a waste. Unless their courses are good enough that they could lure the golf-mad Japanese to play on. Anything to make it worth the expense in resources. And then there's the theory that no two golf loving contries have ever gone to war. Maybe, but don't know if I buy it. My hero, Matt Ridley has written some good stuff on pronking in the human and animal world. He lumps the majority of people’s self-destructive behavior into the class of pronking, his main example is drug taking. Although had he known he could have also used consuming homeade rice wine and an example! Bathtub sake as we call it. Pronking/potlach is interesting stuff. And could be fun.

But the golf course form of pronking? Guess I’m not a golfer, so I’m not very objective, but what a waste. Unless their courses are good enough that they could lure the golf-mad Japanese to play on. Anything to make it worth the expense in resources.

And then there’s the theory that no two golf loving contries have ever gone to war. Maybe, but don’t know if I buy it.

]]> By: The Hao Hao Report http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-978 The Hao Hao Report Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:24:00 +0000 http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-978 <strong>Pronking Towards Bethlehem...</strong> Thoughts on waste - pronking, potlatches and mandatory golf lessons.... Pronking Towards Bethlehem…

Thoughts on waste - pronking, potlatches and mandatory golf lessons….

]]> By: Joshua http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-792 Joshua Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:37:28 +0000 http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-792 Good hunting! Good hunting!

]]> By: JAM http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-791 JAM Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:30:04 +0000 http://peer-see.com/blog/ptb/2006/10/19/#comment-791 I begin to think that I have a genius for working like an ox over totally irrelevant subjects. … I am filled with an excruciating sense of never having gotten anywhere—but when I sit down and try to discover where it is I want to get, I’m at a loss. … The thought of growing into a professor gives me the creeps. A lifetime to be spent trying to kid myself and my pupils into believing that the thing that we are looking for is in books! I don’t know where it is—but I feel just now pretty sure that it isn’t in books. — It isn’t in travel. — It isn’t in California. — It isn’t in New York. … Where is it? And what is it, after all? I spent my evening yesterday listening to a young woman explain to me how harvesting your family's own sustenance in the form of meat (venison and fowl in her example) represents the height of cruelty in the human culture. I let her express her thoughts to their natural conclusion, and then I asked what she did for a living. She replied with a gleeful expression that she was a foreclosure attorney. I think Joe was on to something, but he was like G. Castanza's dad in following the history of the American Tribal Culture. He should have picked up a bow himself. Not taking it all for granted helps us appreciate the Potlatch that is our lives. Got my first one last week! Chief Lenape Murbargeegle ;-) I begin to think that I have a genius for working like an ox over totally irrelevant subjects. … I am filled with an excruciating sense of never having gotten anywhere—but when I sit down and try to discover where it is I want to get, I’m at a loss. … The thought of growing into a professor gives me the creeps. A lifetime to be spent trying to kid myself and my pupils into believing that the thing that we are looking for is in books! I don’t know where it is—but I feel just now pretty sure that it isn’t in books. — It isn’t in travel. — It isn’t in California. — It isn’t in New York. … Where is it? And what is it, after all?

I spent my evening yesterday listening to a young woman explain to me how harvesting your family’s own sustenance in the form of meat (venison and fowl in her example) represents the height of cruelty in the human culture. I let her express her thoughts to their natural conclusion, and then I asked what she did for a living. She replied with a gleeful expression that she was a foreclosure attorney.

I think Joe was on to something, but he was like G. Castanza’s dad in following the history of the American Tribal Culture. He should have picked up a bow himself. Not taking it all for granted helps us appreciate the Potlatch that is our lives.

Got my first one last week!

Chief Lenape Murbargeegle ;-)

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