Wow what an article, and what a statement it made in class. I am again reminded that I should give in to my urge and watch the documentary King Corn. I have been thinking about doing this for a while but never got around to do so. In my eyes this science debate if you will reminds me of DDT and how Rachel Carson's Silent Spring opened up the eyes of millions proving what a detriment that the insecticide had on the ecosystem, but everything thing that eventually hurts the environment has had a positive effect too. For instance malaria rates were down when DDT killed the mosquitoes, but that never gets talked about because the bird deaths in the states were more alarming. (This is just a really rough sketch of what I remember when studding the topic)
The other thing that really caught my attention was the reaction Greenpeace had on the bt controversy. They sure do make themselves noticed that for sure whether they are clip boarding around campus or displaying a theatrical performance of the butterfly affect in Seattle. Call me undereducated and overestimated but something about this origination is a turn off to me.
Lastly I’d like to note that politics has been viciously showing up in every article and just about every aspect of my life now that I’m so in tune and consumed with it from class. It’s like being in the third grade again, and learning what tensile is and never really thinking about it up until you see it everywhere once you have been made aware what it is and that it exists. I feel like every time I open my refrigerator, cook, or sit down for a meal I have just invested in politics and stated my priorities because of how I make my decisions of what I choose to put in my mouth. It makes me sick to think about .
Aha...the "politics everywhere" outcome. Yes, it would seem to be the case...even in those places where you least expected it. And not "politics" understood in simple terms (political parties, campaigns, voting,...) but the gathering together of assemblages, the coming-into-being of publics, the work of composition,... You would not be alone in experiencing this sort of entanglement as dizzying (to the point of being made sick about it). It becomes difficult to step outside the webwork of associations so as NOT to be sick in thinking about it. On the other hand we've explored a few tools to thinking better as we act in that webwork.
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