TWENTY SOMETHING by Ishi Dinim
Love is coming to a community near you. If it isn’t there already,
don’t worry, it’s on the way. Not the aid-package-with-a-bomb
kind of love but the people-smiling-blossoms-in-the-tree kind.
It doesn’t happen every day that you have the best day of your
life, but it happened to me a couple weeks ago: poutine for breakfast,
Noam Chomsky giving a history lesson in the park, dim sum for lunch,
sushi for dinner and then scrumptious love with friends at night.
It left me with a feeling that things are only getting better. Even
though I’m pleasantly unemployed again, there’s a wealth
of superb food, sweet weather and astounding people.
One surprising character in our collective consciousness these
days is the late Dr Robert Atkins. This diet guru changed the way
millions of people think about food. I found myself interested in
who this guy was and how he managed to alter gastronomic history.
He purported weight-loss, better health and a revolutionary new
way to do it: low carbs and high protein. On April 8, 2003 at age
72 he slipped and fell outside his New York office, lapsed into
a coma and later succumbed to unsuccessful surgery intended to relieve
the pressure on his brain from a blood clot.
Now this man died obese and with a history of heart disease. Neither
of these factors, say his supporters, were a result of diet or a
cause of his untimely death. Hmmm? All of this information could
make an interesting beginning for a biography, however I’m
more interested in how the Atkins diet functions on a larger, wider
and more robust level. It could be a conspiracy theory, but I postulate
that Dr Atkins’s ideas have been aggressively sold, post-mortem,
by the meat lobby as a way to invigorate their struggling industry.
With a host of plagues in the gristle of today, people need a greater
incentive to chow down larger quantities of indigestible proteins.
Note for the future that it is generally not a good idea to take
diet advice from an obese, dead guy with a history of heart attacks.
Something else I can’t stomach are non-war wars. Where are
the people in the streets protesting? Oh wait they’re too
busy fighting amongst themselves maybe. There is a lot of self-scrutiny
and in-fighting amongst the left about strategies in dealing with
today’s issues. We have to be strong enough not to cannibalize
our own in the process of questioning everything.
People are up in arms about democracy, Nader, Adbusters, the UN
and the US. The left is not working the way people want it to. Let
whoever needs to know in a constructive way that you don’t
like how things are going, and if they don’t change, do it
better yourself. But say something and think about it long enough
so that it comes out properly, Mr Lasn, and then take some proactive
steps. www.adbusters.org/magazine/52/articles/currentresponses.html
(People are letting the zine know)
Sometimes I just want to move to the woods and raise goats. Get
it together people and by that I am talking to myself, huh?
THOUGHTS
We all want to be happy, and we’re all going
to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true
facts that apply to every human being on this planet. - William
Boyd
There are things that we know. And then there are known unknowns.
That is to say, there are things that we now know that we don’t
know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do
not know we don’t know…That is, the absence of evidence
is not evidence of absence…Simply because you do not have
evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence
that it doesn’t exist.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted
was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole
planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Ishi Dinim graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
in 2001, with a BFA major in photography. He enjoys experiencing
art, especially writing and film. Madagascar calls him to meet the
lemurs and baobab trees. Currently he lives in Vancouver cooking
up some good lovin’, collecting cacti and trying to discover
the meaning of life.
contactishi@yahoo.ca waiting
to hear echoes back…
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