This article makes total and absolute sense to me. Many times, I've been involved in something to the point where it affects my life outside of the activity. A perfect example would be the Mageroyal incident. Mageroyal is a pink flower that can be collected and used in healing potions in the game World of Warcraft. I was walking my dogs with my mom one day when I noticed a small pink collection of flowers. It was a small branch from a nearby dogwood tree that had somehow made its way to the middle of the park. I looked at it and immediately muttered "mageroyal." I then had to explain myself to my mother, who gave me a strange look and continued walking. I'm glad I didn't tell her that I was mentally checking my inventory to see what I might mix it with to gain certain results. Another example was a game where the objective was to walk only the black tiles. Walking on the white tiles would cause those tiles, and your character, to fall into a pit of spikes. My next trip to the mall was made more interesting than usual by my near inability to walk on the cream tiles. Finally, Tetris had the ability to invade my normal world. Learning to drive was made more difficult by thoughts such as "if that blue truck moved to the left lane, I'd have a complete section."
The article to me shows how when a person starts to gain knowledge in a certain subject they apply it to their everyday life. How a person's subliminal mind will have them doing actions they really have no control over. I see how he was really affected by his learnings. Like when a artist like myself looks at the everyday world you can see all the shapes and designs within a object. As an artist you break down anything to its basic forms. Music producers also do this when they hear a song they hear the beats per minute, tempo, the individual instruments and the patterns of the melody. I thought it was a pretty good article on how certain skills a person has take over without their control turning it into more of a natural instinct.
It would seem that Jon Rosenblatt is taking an inadvertent introspective look at life in this rhetorical dissection of his Bandito Burrito take-out menu. It is a contradictory undertaking that society imposes upon the educated in an effort to become learned. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the other unnamed “Ivy League” schools pride themselves on being able to teach the students to think for themselves and to understand by making an educated observation with their own influence of personal insight and knowledge: one must be able to interpret the world from his or her own perspective to obtain individuality. It is beaten into these unsuspecting pupils that they need to be able to take apart the world around them to truly understand what this world… “Is”. Herein lies the complexity of the nature of this statement: it is in the collective mindset, “something needs to be scrutinized before there can be an admittance of knowledge”, which an absence of “self” or the aforementioned individuality exists. I propose the question: If we are all taught to dissect to understand and to understand to eventually realize our individuality – then how can this be obtained when we are sacrificing our own identity to conform to the idea that we all must dissect; if, for sake of argument, character was defined solely by the lack of a will, need, or desire to explain the very core concepts of an object or idea then where does that leave the individual who finds themselves conditioned to do so?
This is an extremely interesting article, with many complex words. I believe that Rosenblatt is trying to say that the menu is fake, and our capitalist society accepts the bandido menu regardless of the fact that its author or authors use racist, generalizations about what the actual Mexican culture represents. Rosenblatt was obviously over worked, thinking way too hard and overanalyzing any questionable circumstance he encounters.
To me this menu in a way is stereotypical about Mexicans. You see the bandit with his guns drawn, and he looks like a burrito. In a way making fun of the Mexican culture, but yet profiting from it in the same motion. At least that's what I got from it.
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This article makes total and absolute sense to me. Many times, I've been involved in something to the point where it affects my life outside of the activity. A perfect example would be the Mageroyal incident. Mageroyal is a pink flower that can be collected and used in healing potions in the game World of Warcraft. I was walking my dogs with my mom one day when I noticed a small pink collection of flowers. It was a small branch from a nearby dogwood tree that had somehow made its way to the middle of the park. I looked at it and immediately muttered "mageroyal." I then had to explain myself to my mother, who gave me a strange look and continued walking. I'm glad I didn't tell her that I was mentally checking my inventory to see what I might mix it with to gain certain results.
Another example was a game where the objective was to walk only the black tiles. Walking on the white tiles would cause those tiles, and your character, to fall into a pit of spikes. My next trip to the mall was made more interesting than usual by my near inability to walk on the cream tiles.
Finally, Tetris had the ability to invade my normal world. Learning to drive was made more difficult by thoughts such as "if that blue truck moved to the left lane, I'd have a complete section."
I didn't understand the story and I was lost.I have no idea of what he was talking about.Maybe he is on to something too bad I don't know what it is.
The article to me shows how when a person starts to gain knowledge in a certain subject they apply it to their everyday life. How a person's subliminal mind will have them doing actions they really have no control over. I see how he was really affected by his learnings. Like when a artist like myself looks at the everyday world you can see all the shapes and designs within a object. As an artist you break down anything to its basic forms. Music producers also do this when they hear a song they hear the beats per minute, tempo, the individual instruments and the patterns of the melody. I thought it was a pretty good article on how certain skills a person has take over without their control turning it into more of a natural instinct.
It would seem that Jon Rosenblatt is taking an inadvertent introspective look at life in this rhetorical dissection of his Bandito Burrito take-out menu. It is a contradictory undertaking that society imposes upon the educated in an effort to become learned. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and the other unnamed “Ivy League” schools pride themselves on being able to teach the students to think for themselves and to understand by making an educated observation with their own influence of personal insight and knowledge: one must be able to interpret the world from his or her own perspective to obtain individuality. It is beaten into these unsuspecting pupils that they need to be able to take apart the world around them to truly understand what this world… “Is”. Herein lies the complexity of the nature of this statement: it is in the collective mindset, “something needs to be scrutinized before there can be an admittance of knowledge”, which an absence of “self” or the aforementioned individuality exists. I propose the question: If we are all taught to dissect to understand and to understand to eventually realize our individuality – then how can this be obtained when we are sacrificing our own identity to conform to the idea that we all must dissect; if, for sake of argument, character was defined solely by the lack of a will, need, or desire to explain the very core concepts of an object or idea then where does that leave the individual who finds themselves conditioned to do so?
This is an extremely interesting article, with many complex words. I believe that Rosenblatt is trying to say that the menu is fake, and our capitalist society accepts the bandido menu regardless of the fact that its author or authors use racist, generalizations about what the actual Mexican culture represents. Rosenblatt was obviously over worked, thinking way too hard and overanalyzing any questionable circumstance he encounters.
To me this menu in a way is stereotypical about Mexicans. You see the bandit with his guns drawn, and he looks like a burrito. In a way making fun of the Mexican culture, but yet profiting from it in the same motion. At least that's what I got from it.
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