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Uncode #728: Food for thought: Whose thoughts are you eating?

In a world, where thoughts travel faster than the speed of Zoom and are shared in various screens, whose formation relies on an organization of the power of points, there are still worlds that exist where theory and lived experiences are mixed, where the flavor of ideas comes from the salt of our lives. However, in the "first world" mentioned, ideas are packaged like processed foods to form a "marketplace of ideas" (Levin Morales, 2001) and sold in, what is known in that world as "supermarket chains." Is it not interesting how the prefix "super" is supposed to mean "above and beyond," even though the reality of these "above and beyond" markets define progress in the amount of links in their "chains?" It seems that super really means "under" and that the chains of thoughts are really shackles to precarious ways of knowing and modes of being in the world.

Levin Morales declares, "It is that wealth of tribal, local, particular, and personal knowledges, individually crafted and set forth on the common table that feeds me" (ibid). The common table is a table neither constructed by "common cores" nor ores. In reality, the common table is a table constructed for common core, the common curriculum. However, the common was co-opted to be processed, streamlined, and package as yet another additional piece of furnishing in a living room, where the degrees earned are hung on plastered walls and only the dead food is eaten. Thus, the food chain changed as the common table of conversations are marketed as normal, as commonplace in a land of individualist interest, whose debt far exceeds its actual principles. However, as mentioned before, there are still worlds, where wealth is not measure in currencies that do not make cents off of common sense, but where wealth is shared as food with life in a living space ―where tables are used to gather instead of separate ―where we, as the precious, intertwined beings we are, can eat.


References

Morales, L. A. (2001). Certified organic intellectual. In Coco de Filippis, D. (Ed) Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Duke University Press.