I never thought I would be thinking this indepthly about a word I hear often and associate with the nasty and unwanted. It’s wild to me that there once was a time before we knew anything about being “dirty” or germs where we would have been comfortable announcing to the world that the smelly thing that comes out of us after we eat should be something we harvest and eat… Something I thought of after class was that in this day and age people would trust eating their own shit more. Sounds weird but hear me out, imagine you know nothing you know now about your body and how it works and imagine using the bathroom. Would one of the thoughts that crossed your mind really be ‘how do I eat this??’ Now with all our technology and knowledge now, especially if someone like Elon Musk for example was to put out an announcement about his new planet saving invention that ‘recycles all human waste’ people would be all over it. Just an interesting thought and not something that feels too far fetched. As someone pointed out in class, we already are drinking filtered pee. Though one of the blog posts I just read made a very good point about it being a lot closer to water and therefore a lot easier to comprehend. I guess the conclusion to all of this is that I still don’t know what side I agree with more. The idea and everything icks me out but I could also trust some of the tech to completely change it. Who knows what our future holds. I just hope it’s a lot less shitty.
Author Archives: Lillith Davies-Smith
Hoarding
In my space now I am actually lacking a lot of my usual clutter. Back home my bookshelves are overflowing with books and knick knacks from all ages and stages of my life. I like to call it my personal museum. Without the clutter that I have collected though it has allowed me to start new collections which have yet to grow very much. So far the thing I have found myself filling my space with the most has been food. Last year the dining commons and I didn’t get along so this year I have an overabundance of non perishable foods like snacks and microwave meals stacked and in boxes all over my room. That and cooking items.. So many pots, pans, spices, bowls etc. But the only thing that makes it a bigger deal or more of a clutter is it being in a space that it normally is not. If all of my items were in a kitchen I doubt someone would even really notice that they existed.