Culture is our collective memory. Certainly, no one doubts the importance of culture in navigating our social, economic, and political worlds. But we are not alone in having collective memories.
“When you remove a lot of old fish, and you know that the herring acts as a collective, then you actually remove the collective memory of the population.”
Taking the older herring from the “schools” led to changes in migratory patterns. From Nautil.us, How These Fish Lost Their Memory The unexpected consequences of harvesting old, wise fish
I am aging out of the culture. Slim Jims were once a hidden passion, indulged in when I happened to be in a convenience store. Not today in carnivore nation, where meat on a stick is a cultural and nutritional trend.
“In recent years, the meat stick has become the fastest-growing product of a protein-fueled snack boom that’s growing at 3x the rate of an already ascendant snacking category. Last year, US consumers spent $3 billion on meat sticks, roughly the same amount as they did on roses and legal March Madness bets. In fact, Americans are now consuming so many meat sticks and protein snacks in general, it’s set off alarm bells from the plant-loving buzzkills at the Mayo Clinic, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Harvard School of Public Health.”
How America Became Meat Stick Nation
While on the subject of meat sticks, 7-11 comes to mind. Do you know that there are 85,000 7-Eleven stores globally and that it is larger than McDonald’s? Here are some more fun facts about 7-11 and what it might mean for MAHA if we would only think outside the box. From Bloomberg TV, Why There Is A Battle To Own 7-11
From my reading archive.
“Peanuts was deceptive. It looked like kid stuff, but it wasn’t. The strip’s cozy suburban conviviality, its warm fuzziness, conveyed some uncomfortable truths about the loneliness of social existence. The characters, though funny, could stir up shockingly heated arguments over how to survive and still be a decent human being in a bitter world. Who was better at it—Charlie Brown or Snoopy?”
From The Atlantic, 2015, The Exemplary Narcissism of Snoopy
Chuck Dinerstein, MD, MBA
Director of Medicine
Dr. Charles Dinerstein, M.D., MBA, FACS is Director of Medicine at the American Council on Science and Health. He has over 25 years of experience as a vascular surgeon.
