I’ve been on a PBS thing lately. First I saw “King Corn” (or is it King Korn?) on Sunday, which was very thought-provoking. I’m glad to say, I’ve never developed a habit of drinking sodas and eating mega-chain fast foods. Sodas tended to be too sweet for me, and the the mystery meats between the mystery buns never sat well in my system.
Then I started watching “Carrier” which was incredibly fascinating. After a few episodes you begin to learn about people’s lives, the diversity, the craziness it must be on that “floating high school.” It was like a reality TV show, except… real. I’ve always had a thing for boats, maybe because my grandfather did too. I was on a cargo ship once, something around the 4000 TEU capacity, I think. One can only imagine the kinds of goods that get loaded onto those ships from Asian ports, that find their way into the US a week or two later, that after many more hours by rail and road, finally hit our shelves.
Thinking about that is kinda like tracing corn’s destiny–starting from a plot of land in Iowa, ending up as feed for cattle or as nutrition-less processed food.
Where does music come from?
