[UA] Re: The Gardener/Cultivator

[Kevin Elmore]

> The taboo might include a prohibition against cultivating
> things that have
> no use. It's okay to grow food, drugs, pretty flowers but
> you could not
> allow weeds to invade the garden.

Heh, and someone who takes cultivating too far might decide
to trim the excess off of everything.  Weeds are pulled,
sickly animals are put down, sexual predators are killed.

Of course, that's taking things too far off the gardneing
path.  A bit of a Nietzscheism outlook.  

It could be the negative side of the Gardener archetype.  A
positive side would be one who values all life.  A negative
side would think nothing of culling the herd.

Kevin



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"Hmm, for how long?"
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"So that's sauteing, and fricasseeing?"
"Exactly the same, just a slightly bigger rat."
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