Status: FED
· Kale Salad (arugula, yuzu dressing, pecorino)
· Northern Cassoulet: Musk Ox Leg + Venison + Wild Boar
· Dessert by Charlton
Guest #119.1: Katharine Charlton
Occupation: Psychiatrist
Contributed: Chocolate almond cake, peanut butter cupcakes
Sent thank-you: email
Guest #119.2: Alex Panther
Occupation: science guy
Contributed: Olivier Ravoire 2009 Plan de Dieu, Wine by Joe 2008 Pinot Noir
Sent thank-you: see above
Guest #119.3: Mike Miner
Occupation: suspicious drifter
Contributed: $1000 nutella
Sent thank-you: Mike can never thank me enough for saving him from that angry redneck sheriff.
WHAT DO PEOPLE DO IN THE ARCTIC?
PANTHER
What do people do all day long there?
PANTHER
What do people do all day long there?
CHARLTON
It’s kind of a full time job, sewing a skin tent and coming up with food and keeping a fire going.
It’s kind of a full time job, sewing a skin tent and coming up with food and keeping a fire going.
PANTHER
But I mean, if you’re going to go to the store and buy the food. What do people do?
CHARLTON
Well this is the problem. So rapid cultural change is a known precipitant of problems in cultures. The other examples are in New Zealand or sometimes in Africa. I’m not an arctic expert. I just go up there sometimes.
But I mean, if you’re going to go to the store and buy the food. What do people do?
CHARLTON
Well this is the problem. So rapid cultural change is a known precipitant of problems in cultures. The other examples are in New Zealand or sometimes in Africa. I’m not an arctic expert. I just go up there sometimes.
MINTZ
You can’t take a people who are used to subsiding on what they can do for themselves, and introduce good and services.
You can’t take a people who are used to subsiding on what they can do for themselves, and introduce good and services.
CHARLTON
Right. So now they have stores and everything. And that kind of rapid cultural shift often results, when it happens within a generation or two, it often results in a kind of existential crisis of the culture. So the people lose their purpose without evolving something new, as would have happened in Europe. Things would have slowly shifted from survivalism, like feudalism and a bunch of different models.
Right. So now they have stores and everything. And that kind of rapid cultural shift often results, when it happens within a generation or two, it often results in a kind of existential crisis of the culture. So the people lose their purpose without evolving something new, as would have happened in Europe. Things would have slowly shifted from survivalism, like feudalism and a bunch of different models.
MINTZ
Well if you’re connected, geographically, close to another culture, capitalism’s going to take hold, and you’ll be like, what do we have to sell or trade or do?
CHARLTON
So they went from survivalism to capitalism without any of the intervening phases. So it creates a kind of purposelessness or a meaninglessness.
Well if you’re connected, geographically, close to another culture, capitalism’s going to take hold, and you’ll be like, what do we have to sell or trade or do?
CHARLTON
So they went from survivalism to capitalism without any of the intervening phases. So it creates a kind of purposelessness or a meaninglessness.
