http://infranetlab.org/blog/2009/09/clean-urbanism-dirty-realism/ infrastructures / networks / environments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:13:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://infranetlab.org/blog/2009/09/clean-urbanism-dirty-realism/comment-page-1/#comment-5193 JM Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:53:23 +0000 http://infranetlab.org/blog/?p=650#comment-5193 I reached a similar conclusion when traveling in India and such places that don't have some of our modern "conveniences" - what we call 'civilization' is more about how far away we are from our biological processes. Not shitting in a hole vs shitting on a "porcelain throne", killing an animal yourself or raising food yourself vs buying it from the supermarket prepacked. It's interesting how the people with more disposable income are evolving back to this earlier state of life, at least in regards to food. I reached a similar conclusion when traveling in India and such places that don't have some of our modern "conveniences" – what we call 'civilization' is more about how far away we are from our biological processes. Not shitting in a hole vs shitting on a "porcelain throne", killing an animal yourself or raising food yourself vs buying it from the supermarket prepacked. It's interesting how the people with more disposable income are evolving back to this earlier state of life, at least in regards to food.

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