Idle thoughts about food

[avram]

I don’t expect any of you folks to actually find this interesting, but I could be wrong. It’s here so that I can see it at some future date, when I’ve forgotten this stuff, and be reminded.

• Thinking of fattening foods as something I can deserve leads to willpower struggles which I’ll lose. I’d have eaten at Burger King tonight if it hadn’t been about to close, and was about to go on to the fried chicken place. Framing the decision as a matter of virtue made the proper choice clear.
  • This may explain some of the popularity of religion as a tool of social control.
    • People who have god experiences — do they get that virtue-framing thing as apparently-external input? If so, why?
      • Julian Jaynes couldn’t have been right with all that breakdown of the bicameral mind stuff, could he?
  • This may have implications for public policy. Many people are offended by the notion of controlling pollution by issuing pollution credits rather than just clamping down directly. Is it because they sense that a trade-based pollution-control regime will wind up allowing more overall pollution than a straight regulation-based one?
    • Do matters change when scaling up to a society from a single psyche? Maybe, maybe not. It’s not as if psyches can’t be considered as societies (Minsky’s Society of Mind).
• Toilet Alert: Burger King open till 10 PM, has unlocked bathrooms.
• When in doubt, have a salad.
  • But hold the onions.
    • At least, yellow onions are a really bad idea.
    • Red onions are better, but still not great.
    • Try vidalias next time.