Sugar and meaning
This blog is dedicated to DGrintalis, for whose generous tweet I am much in debt.
Sugar is like all good things. Too much of it is bad.
Doggone it, that’s just not fair. Something that is good should remain good to the end – good, good, good, and that’s it – but that’s not how it works. Sugar is only sweet if you don’t have too much of it. Too much sugar turns to bile, vomit, and your feet rotting off.
What does it mean that too much sweetness turns sour?
Balance – unfortunately for those of us who like things to be either this or that. Good must be leavened with something else to remain sweet, and good for you.
Sugar makes you smile, but it also makes your teeth go away.
Balance is sweetness.
Shucks,
LWIII
I was surprised a concept (on topic here I suppose) that had popped up in my mind recently, “metabolizing reality”, had been used before and was found by Google. Like sugar, we need to be able to metabolize that which we confront, put us into this world and will take us out. The better we balance intake and output, our homeostasis, the better we can metabolize it and will not be eaten away by diabetes. And it is not only a question of quantity, but also of quality. There is good and bad sugar, like honey and stuff our body cannot break down, nor get rid of. Likewise there is good and bad metabolizing of reality. A bad way would be using brutal force, not listening to what reality is trying to tell us, just retweeting each other and confirming what the other is saying, if and only if it is what we say, with powerplay and dependency. The way to go though, imho, is the same but then without the power and with independency. That is the only road to truth, reality and metabolizing it like a sweet.
I love that phrase, Ron, “metabolizing reality”. Only got two hits on Google myself, but the one I read said that one metabolizes reality with wonder and growth. Ingest reality, get struck with wonder (the digestion process) and then grow from the intake.
My understanding of the digestive process, rudimentary I admit, is that all food gets turned into sugars (glucose mainly) so tht we can metabolize them. Not sure how that relates to this, but maybe it’s the experiences we take in as sugar rather than metabolize into sugar that kicks our ass.
Balance, in everything including retweeting, is generally good. But too much balance is imbalanced. As far as the road to truth goes, I don’t know, I lost my map.
Thanks for the comment!