boxes: a social commentary
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Boxes: A Social Commentary. By Michael Barrett. What do you do with what you want to store away?. Put it in boxes, of course. When you have too much stuff, k eep your boxes in bigger storage boxes. Store people away by convincing them to live in boxes. Travel in separate boxes. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Boxes: A Social Commentary
By Michael Barrett
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What do you do with what you want to store away?
Put it in boxes, of course
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When you have too much stuff, keep your boxes in bigger storage boxes
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Store people away by convincing them to live in boxes
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Travel in separate boxes
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Work on a box
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In a boxed work environment
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In a big box built to store companies
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In a boxed city
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Put education in boxes
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Teach with boxes
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Learn from boxes
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Prove your intelligence with boxes
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Prove your expertise with boxes
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It starts as soon as you’re born
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Put your racial identity in a box
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Box your religious views
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Box your sex
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Regiment political participation with boxes
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Talk about solving problems around a box
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Pay with boxes
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Write with boxes
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Communicate with boxes
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Passively entertain yourself with a box
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Passively entertain the masses with boxes
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Regiment mass spirituality with boxes
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Seize peoples’ energy with boxes
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Farm in boxes
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Put food in boxes
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Cook in boxes
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Shop in a big box
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Shop with a smaller box
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Better yet, box stores in a box mall
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After you have lived your life to the fullest, you get put in a box.
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“We’re always putting things in boxes. All thoughts, all words are labels on boxes; therefore we feel we have to get everything boxed, and so we put ourselves in boxes. Everything is put in boxes, but actually everything else in nature doesn’t go that way.” -Alan Watts
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“Wherever human beings have been around you see rectangles and straight lines, because we’re always trying to straighten things out, and so that’s the very mark of our presence.”-Alan Watts
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“You can’t fight it, it’s the system. You build everything according to these shapes because they are easy to store away in a place that is a box In the first place.” –Alan Watts
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What comes to mind when you hear this name?
Death Valley
Photo: Bob Canfield
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Photo: Nicole Inclan
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“Earthrise” -1968
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Physical ConceptualIn
divi
dual
Soci
etal
StereotypesPrejudice
DiscriminationOppression
IsolationRegimentation
Institutional Power
Boxes
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Paradigm Metaphors • Industrial – Utility– Linearity– Conformity– Standardization
• Organic– Vitality – Creativity – Diversity– Customization
-Metaphors by Sir Ken Robinson
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