The Magic of Plants, Wednesday, Per 3

[glacial_queen]

Karla might live in Glacia, but she still kept tabs on Earth. So she was more than a little aggravated with politics when she arrived in Fandom for class today. They were playing dangerous games and they weren't even playing them well and that just offended Karla right down to her bones. She was half-tempted to March to DC after class was over and show them what a real ruler looked like.

"So, everything is kind of terrible today," Karla declared. "And while it was tempting to show you all how to make alcohol out of plants, I'm supposed to be some kind of role model or something. So instead, we're going to watch a very serious movie about how useful plants can be and why you should take care of them."

While snacking on roasted piñas, or agave hearts, that just happened to come with an explanation of how to make mezcal, on the off-chance that was helpful to anybody.

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Re: Discussion

[somethingwithturquoise]

Uurrrggghhh....

"It was just kind of sweet," Summer shrugged. "I liked how he went through all that because he waneed to impress that girl," because of course she would, "and ended up learning how plants are important and stuff. Cute. Twelve year old me would have loved it."

Re: Discussion

[glacial_queen]

"And what does..." Karla tried to gauge Summer's age and failed. "...current year old you think? It's cute and it's sweet, but did you care for it? Does it matter to you at all?"

Re: Discussion

[somethingwithturquoise]

"It's a good message," Summer reasoned, "but kinda cheesy. Like, I don't think. I'd ever bother watching it on my own."

Or at least, not that she'd admit to, shut uo.

Re: Discussion

[glacial_queen]

"Did you learn anything?" Karla asked. "Or was that part of what made it so cheesy?"

Re: Discussion

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I mean," Summer shrugged, "there's nothing new to learn there. Like any post-industrial society doesn't already know, deep down, that deforestation and the destruction of nature is a bad thing already? It's just that in a post-industrial society, people are really good at ignoring things, pushing it aside, and doing what they know is bad anyway because the benefit outweighs the idealistic idea of just leaving nature alone. We're incredibly destructive by nature, so the attempts to moralize on the idea of preservation is really nothing new. It might leave an impression on younger mind, but most people who could do anything about it are already too jaded to care."

Re: Discussion

[glacial_queen]

There it was. Karla'd known that if she'd just kept prodding, eventually Summer would come out with a real critique.

"So, are you saying that destruction is an incontrovertible part of the human condition?" she asked, grinning. "Or simply an incontrovertible part of your current capitalist culture? Because we can look a a great number of smaller, non-industrial tribes that do not view destruction with the same jaded air you mentioned."