I know you probably won't see it, but it is entirely the Financial Industry's fault; that includes Investment Banks or those that act like one.
Here's the back-story; it starts with time-shares. Do a google search on "David Siegel" Sure, it was about making money; but it was more about "everyman's" ability to 'own' a vacation spot.
Take the results of the time-share industry, commoditize it even more, turn the buyers into profit-centers, sell that to the newly budding "investment" society and you get Wall Street lobbiests and lawyers crafting both the opinions and laws the bought-off politicans create.
It's pretty easy for the willing get chumped, but this package was far to toxic by half. Pure greed. From top to bottom.
I mostly lurk and seldom reply to anon. But I'm compelled to say Well Spoke, and thanks for the forethought.
Perl was the reason I started wrapping my brain around regular expressions. Later in the 90's I build complex backends using cgilib. Tried a few frameworks like mason..... I became a perlOphite for all the sentiments you expressed so well.
The ease of cpan, of quickly manipulating DBI tables, so many reasons why it, and its attitude, always works for me. Off a CLI, wrapped up in a shell script, part of a larger pipe; I just cannot imagine using another interpreter as painlessly.
Specially for admin stuff and my personal libs of files/data which require maintaining.
That said, were I a manager today I'd see the sense in concluding that python, ruby, a compiled lang,.... would have a better outcome from the devs; despite my personal aversion for each of them. Enforcing Delimiters does not good code guarantee and makes editing others' code in vi more tedious (or macro'd). Maybe if I were an IDE type of guy.
I found my time spent adopting/trying/using rails/passenger/gems/mongrel less warm-n-fuzzy than squating in the cpan/perlmonkworld camp
I feel Perl epotimizes the LAMP stack, the finishing touch of what, for me, was a process (mentioned earlier) of learning OS as much as CS and appreciating the many ways to do one thing.
But not all programmers feel drawn to broader systems and from that narrower perspective more structure makes infinitely more sense.
For those who might say perl is a hackers language I would heartily agree. Its where it's genius lies.
"Organized" Protest has changed more governments in the last 15 years than ever before.
Just google Gene Sharp. His formula has been adopted by the underclass world-over. He and his book have been declared "emeny of the State" in banana republics world over (incl Russia).
His 1st Directive: Have a solid strategic plan. Wish OWS leadership followed his advice.
I suspect edge weapons will be the norm; "loaded" being the keyword (and the ammo-makers being in short supply cuz its not the 19th century).
And just for honorable mention, since i haven't seen it come up in the threads (yet): "transition-town" - google it. They (the membership) have had their eye on this particular ball for quite some time now
Coincidentally enough, this weeks' episode of "Hannibal" introduced the concept of "brain-driving" as using light/sound to induce a state of epilepsy. Meme's been around (like uv/bbeats...) awhile but 1st i heard it called that.
Seems to me trippin time means increasing FPS on all senses; gets old fast.
Hi: Using your comment to go on record with my own; my feeling on capital punishment isn't so much about rehabilitation vs vengence as much as it is the suffering induce in our methods of killing.
FFS, it would be cheaper and kinder to put me in front of a firing squad, give me the piece and I'd do myself first. Why state murder can't follow the same tack as (phys) assisted suicide. A tank of helium and the cost of a plastic bag.
Killing anything should reflect the dignity and heart of a society as much as those it condemns to death row.
Technically, E is a DE as much as it is a WM If you cared to install entrance you have a decent alternative to KDM/GDM/LXDM.... It's pretty nice; i only wish it did XDMCP as well as KDE. One thing that makes E indespensible for me is the remote tool and that despite the ominous 'something bad' message, restarting never fails.
Combine E with compositing a la ecomp/ecomorph and the result is a pretty stable system that's worked for me for ages. And like all DM/WM's not as smart as i wish they would be.
Anarchism firstly believes that everyone has a right to exist. That means/implies a right to homestead; own and manage land for sustanence.
You are correct that anarchists do not believe in leaders, per se. Because it leads to heirarchies and patronages.
That is not to say there are no leaders, only that they are driven from below AOT above and everyone participating has a seat/voice at the table.
Led or Leaderless, even the dumbest anarchist understands the need for strategic planning. Its more then about how the planning gets done and executed.
I know of few, if any, real anarchist communities; but the coops and guilds come close; the stories of the Basque Mondragon is a good model perhaps, as is the work currently being done in S.America
Snowden was a 'glitch' in a system trying desperately to scale up to its global surveilance potential knowing that Russia and China both were soon to be in the info-wars race; they believe that one/other/both will be the opponent in the next 'big' conflagration (prob China).
I suspect that they (???) truely believe the USA will be severely dis-advantaged, competitively, for badly-needed resources in the years to come.
"They" represent the will of our Establishment and as wrong as they have been about everything else, I count on them being wrong on this as well.
The Black-Swan, the Blow-back, the counter-intuitive solution waiting in some mind's eye. We sorely lack good, visionary, leadership. What we have is cautionary CYA piss-poor managers who see everything as a control issue.
Snowden, at worst, is a refreshing wind to tumble this house of cards; at best, hs is the spririt of "doing the right thing" that should make Americans proud.
Though I in near accord w/both you and GPPoster, I would like to note that, sticking to a car analogy, Its like buying a car that works for >5 if not >10 years to avoid the viscious lease/trade-in cycle and planned obsolence.
So, the mechanic who craftily repairs and replaces parts (functionality) is something of an artist and someone prized and trusted if good at their trade.
I've been round the same block too many times as you refer to. I love and will only use opensource and have a bias for "many ways to do one thing". Though,, for all its merits, FOSS has delivered no better than proprietary insofar as "just works". It is just a richer toolchest for the mechanic to work from.
Specially when Obama discovers, 1st hand, that his military cannot succeed at either counter-insurgency or counter-terrorism as laid out by their own plans.
Your ignorance is astonishing, you remind me of DavidBrooks, droning on and on in reasonable monotone about things the nature of which he knows nothing about; re-hashing talking points of subjects beyond his actual knowledge. His words do nothing other than reflect his trust in the Establishment; overlooking the massive fail of the system because it doesn't touch him personally.
For starters try reading Dr. Carl Hart's "High Price: A Neuroscientistâ(TM)s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society"
Or, just continue to be a sock-puppet and stay in the kill-filter
Though I'm fond of sshX, NX, X11VNC, etc... One fault I have w/entranced is its inability to do XDMCP and my wishlist includes it being as capable in that regard as KDE.
Long time E user here. Its a WM (IMO), but if you want the DE then use Entranced; as my belief is that a DE begins at the login screen should you so desire it.
regarding earlier posts on segfaulting, E17 is/was the only WM that restored itself (mostly) on "something bad....." happening where other WM's just totally crashed. E remote is another feature i really appreciate; being able to control:0 from a terminal (if they would only revert to the previous - more robust - version).
Though building E from svn suggests its far from 'light' it certainly more lite than gnome or kde. For the past 5-6 years the push as been in the automotive markets.
My only hangup is having to compile options; not having a text file for options was/is almost a deal-breaker regardless of ease of compiling a cfg.
Aside: I really wish that a WM/DE could remember (via ps and wmctrl i suppose) what all of my desktops are doing. Real session management would spare me from having to record each/every job in each/every xterm in the event of a crash. It would be similar to FF sessions. Crash? just restore the last session. I'd switch in a heartbeat to any WM/DE that provided said feature.
Contrats to Rasterman and all the E-lovers out there!
I had a bear named Pookie when I was a young child and in some strange way, you sort of resemble my memory of him:)
I did discover not too long ago that my dear pookie-bear might have been, in fact, a pooka-bear!
a (poor) ref: www.irelandseye.com/paddy3/preview2.htm and defining 'harm and mischief' w/salty-grains.
But my pookie-bear always did, really, I mean really, keep my head spinning with (too) many things to see and do. And I never seemed to fall asleep until late in the night. Often sleep in class. But I was a sports "contender", made qualifying time for olympic tryouts, active and in-training up to the point I wasn't.
I'd like to think that you and all 'diagnosed/labeled' people are afflicted more by trying to adjust to NT-world and the insanity that hierarchial, patriarchial, culture is trying to impose.
Taking speed, SSRI's, certainly has the ability to enhance focus, provide grounding; but cannot claim to improve on where to place one's focus. Think capacity for self-decption, for intstance, as a barrier pills won't cure. Ah, hindsight! What was I thinking?!
I do not see as much benefit in pharma treating the symptoms ('fidgity', disorganized, slooooow, com-challenged,...) as the means of 'fitting' in well enough to be self-sufficient; happiness notwithstanding. But you are still a round peg in a land of square holes; the cat around packs of dogs.
It's not a question of trying harder because you retreat 2 steps for every 5 advanced; or persevering long enough to finish what you started AOT recognizing what got started was not what you thought so move on.
Its accepting that the bridge(s) that the majority (NT) cross is not your bridge to cross. You'll always be behind, playing catch-up; not unlike a non-native living in say, Beijing. No tickee, no washee. Its about not subjecting yourself to getting picked on bec you don't know the language or rules to the game.
There is prob no such thing as un-assisted living. we survive by the networks and groups we identify with; in the companionship of a partner.
Sufficient is not the same as self-reliance. My hope is in finding the tech to provide alternative learning experiences. I'm sure there must be some google metric for the impact that search alone must be having on society and its' fringes.
I'm also sure there lurks a connection between left/right brain dominance and career/trade inclinations; though it seems more organic than planned perhaps. Maybe starting young enough and offering the right attention feedback mechanisms can deliver some way to develop self-understanding; one's dispositions and strengths and weaknesses enough to offer more and better choices in finding and actualizing their passions.
We need a happier world and so much sadness is either self-inflicted or internalized imprints of messages society needs us to believe for it to function.
Good luck, pookie-bear. And if you are a pooka even you know nothing's what it seems Otherwise, wag more, bark less and keep you self out of the brainstorms.
Thanks for the correction. I think I was trying to say that glucose was a more important sugar and that obtaining it from sucrose was an inefficient way to providing energy Or that sucrose does little to affect blood glucose levels but does process the fructose into lipids quickly and is high-glycemic.
Thanks for your post and I'm glad you focused more on "social" than "economic"; though they are inextricably linked. Albiet that stress makes no distinction in boundaries, it's safe to say that the poor are worse off for their stressors.
I fully agree that income factors into individual diet and nutrition. But a rich fat-cat who can afford to eat out at the priciest restaurants that obtain the very best and freshest can still be just as unhealthy as the skin-n-bones pan-handler or the fatty coming out of MacDonalds next door. Obesity is a side effect of food science; playing to taste, texture, flavor.... Whether at the levels of haute-cuisine or the snack aisle at "Super Big Food" store.
I suggest reading "Wheat Belly" to get a better understanding of the dynamics. Put it next to "Grain Brain" on the book shelf.
With the exception of grazers, grass-eating foodies etc.. we are a seed-eating species. These seeds can be tight hull'd (pre-triticum) vs no hull (triticum). The original wheat: 'einkorn' got crossed w/goatgrass to produce 'emmer' which then crossed to produce wheat in general: "triticum aestivum" - as a natural species of wheat. Hybridization of that produced 'triticum duram', a pasta wheat with a higher Glyc index #.
New wheat is easier to grow, more useful in processing and baking; Old wheat is/was way more nutritous,.29% protein vs.10 in new.
Its all about ratings on the glycemic index. New wheat is unhealthy due to its chemical nature making people more prone to obesity, insulin imbalances, diabetes,
My (amateur) understanding is:
Carbs:
break into 3 groups: amylopectin A,B,C that rapidly gets converted to a branching glucose unit (a sugar(a carb)) Amylo-A (wheat) has more digestable fiber, the others less so. but in Amylo-B (fruits) and C (beans) the fibers moves digestion to better get into blood stream.
THe higher the rated glycemic index the higher blood sugar, higer insulin production and more fat as stored energy.
New wheat has a higher glycemic index (.72) than raw sugar or table sugar (.59), so new wheat carbs are easy to digest; but do not give enough high protein value. New wheat is a major contributor to gluten intolerance and is (partially@least) responsible for creating secondary problems like ciliac desease or C.difficle or Clymatia because bacteria and yeasts go all kookoo for sugary cocco-puffs.
Sugars:
Glutens (carbs) come in 3 forms A,B,D A/B are found in old wheat - einkorn, emmer,.... the 'D' genome of gluten allows for better baking propertiess (for the light-n-fluffy breads/pastries we eat).
But D gets processed so fast it does little to aid in digesting other foods, resulting in constipation. This undigested food produces more bacteria (some of which is bad, or less good).
Glucose, a carb, is a complex sugar, where fructose and sucrose are simple sugars. The inability to process food correctly give a pathway for the simple sugars to go undigested and wreak havoc on the gut flora.
Without new wheat the body would more effiently processes food as it should; w/new wheat in your system, Amylo-A depletes the bodys ability to digest, converting glucose->insulin->fats which get burned or stored - one or the other
New wheat in our diet increases being prone to adverse reactions, like prolonged antibiotic usage or constipation, or gas. Some mental disorders are fueled by wheat and affects exorphins - google wheat-brain connection
I apologize for dumping this on your post, but wanted to put my thoughs on the subject somewhere apropos.
What I'm trying to say is that our world-view, our reality, is shaped by not being critical of those things we want to believe because they fit so nicely w/our pre-concieved notions.
Our biases, how we were raised, what was imprinted upon us, what is expedient, convenient... is the 1st hurdle to controlling natural human reactivity and use objectivity to get a more
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I know you probably won't see it, but it is entirely the Financial Industry's fault; that
includes Investment Banks or those that act like
one.
Here's the back-story; it starts with time-shares.
Do a google search on "David Siegel"
Sure, it was about making money; but it was more
about "everyman's" ability to 'own' a vacation
spot.
Take the results of the time-share industry,
commoditize it even more, turn the buyers into
profit-centers, sell that to the newly budding "investment" society and you get Wall Street
lobbiests and lawyers crafting both the opinions
and laws the bought-off politicans create.
It's pretty easy for the willing get chumped, but
this package was far to toxic by half. Pure greed.
From top to bottom.
I mostly lurk and seldom reply to anon.
But I'm compelled to say
Well Spoke, and thanks for the forethought.
Perl was the reason I started wrapping my brain around regular expressions. Later in the 90's I build complex backends using cgilib. Tried a few frameworks like mason..... I became a perlOphite for all the sentiments you expressed so well.
The ease of cpan, of quickly manipulating DBI tables, so many reasons why it, and its attitude,
always works for me. Off a CLI, wrapped up in a shell script, part of a larger pipe; I just cannot imagine using another interpreter as painlessly.
Specially for admin stuff and my personal libs of
files/data which require maintaining.
That said, were I a manager today I'd see the .... would have a better outcome from the
sense in concluding that python, ruby, a compiled
lang,
devs; despite my personal aversion for each of them. Enforcing Delimiters does not good code guarantee and makes editing others' code in vi more tedious (or macro'd). Maybe if I were an IDE
type of guy.
I found my time spent adopting/trying/using rails/passenger/gems/mongrel less warm-n-fuzzy
than squating in the cpan/perlmonkworld camp
I feel Perl epotimizes the LAMP stack, the finishing touch of what, for me, was a process
(mentioned earlier) of learning OS as much as CS
and appreciating the many ways to do one thing.
But not all programmers feel drawn to broader systems and from that narrower perspective more structure makes infinitely more sense.
For those who might say perl is a hackers language
I would heartily agree. Its where it's genius lies.
"Pretending is far from harmless"
Truer words..........
The State of Choice for retired Generals, Diplomats and those in Witness Protection to reside under the radar:)
"Organized" Protest has changed more governments in the last 15 years than ever before.
Just google Gene Sharp. His formula has been adopted by the underclass world-over. He and his book have been declared "emeny of the State" in banana republics world over (incl Russia).
His 1st Directive: Have a solid strategic plan.
Wish OWS leadership followed his advice.
"How do you keep the costs honest on a shifting base?"
Well, the way it's been done was to charge more when demand is high and charge more when demand is less.
Each use-case perfectly designed to have the same outcome. We pay more regardless.
I suspect edge weapons will be the norm; "loaded" being the keyword (and the ammo-makers being in short supply cuz its not the 19th century).
And just for honorable mention, since i haven't seen it come up in the threads (yet):
"transition-town" - google it.
They (the membership) have had their eye on this particular ball for quite some time now
Coincidentally enough, this weeks' episode of "Hannibal" introduced the concept of "brain-driving" as using light/sound to induce a state of epilepsy. Meme's been around (like uv/bbeats...) awhile but 1st i heard it called that.
Seems to me trippin time means increasing FPS on all senses; gets old fast.
Hi:
Using your comment to go on record with my own; my feeling on capital punishment isn't so much about rehabilitation vs vengence as much as it is the suffering induce in our methods of killing.
FFS, it would be cheaper and kinder to put me in front of a firing squad, give me the piece and I'd do myself first. Why state murder can't follow the same tack as (phys) assisted suicide. A tank of helium and the cost of a plastic bag.
Killing anything should reflect the dignity and heart of a society as much as those it condemns to death row.
For starters: Enlightenment_remote
The "something bad...." seldom has prevented E from restarting on the occasional hangup.
But having e remote to control the DM/WM is really useful
And moreso in its 1st encarnation than the last
Technically, E is a DE as much as it is a WM
If you cared to install entrance you have a decent alternative to KDM/GDM/LXDM....
It's pretty nice; i only wish it did XDMCP as well as KDE.
One thing that makes E indespensible for me is the remote tool and that despite the ominous 'something bad' message, restarting never fails.
Combine E with compositing a la ecomp/ecomorph and the result is a pretty stable system that's worked for me for ages. And like all DM/WM's not as smart as i wish they would be.
Anarchism firstly believes that everyone has a right to exist. That means/implies a right to homestead; own and manage land for sustanence.
You are correct that anarchists do not believe in leaders, per se. Because it leads to heirarchies and patronages.
That is not to say there are no leaders, only that they are driven from below AOT above and everyone participating has a seat/voice at the table.
Led or Leaderless, even the dumbest anarchist understands the need for strategic planning. Its more then about how the planning gets done and executed.
I know of few, if any, real anarchist communities; but the coops and guilds come close; the stories of the Basque Mondragon is a good model perhaps, as is the work currently being done in S.America
Snowden was a 'glitch' in a system trying desperately to scale up to its global surveilance potential knowing that Russia and China both were soon to be in the info-wars race; they believe that one/other/both will be the opponent in the next 'big' conflagration (prob China).
I suspect that they (???) truely believe the USA will be severely dis-advantaged, competitively, for badly-needed resources in the years to come.
"They" represent the will of our Establishment and as wrong as they have been about everything else, I count on them being wrong on this as well.
The Black-Swan, the Blow-back, the counter-intuitive solution waiting in some mind's eye. We sorely lack good, visionary, leadership. What we have is cautionary CYA piss-poor managers
who see everything as a control issue.
Snowden, at worst, is a refreshing wind to tumble this house of cards; at best, hs is the spririt of "doing the right thing" that should make Americans proud.
"Buy a car...."
Though I in near accord w/both you and GPPoster,
I would like to note that, sticking to a car analogy, Its like buying a car that works for >5 if not >10 years to avoid the viscious lease/trade-in cycle and planned obsolence.
So, the mechanic who craftily repairs and replaces parts (functionality) is something of an artist and someone prized and trusted if good at their trade.
I've been round the same block too many times as you refer to. I love and will only use opensource and have a bias for "many ways to do one thing". Though,, for all its merits, FOSS has delivered no better than proprietary insofar as "just works". It is just a richer toolchest for the mechanic to work from.
"Guns, Drugs and Money"...
Sounds like the American Way!
It's what we, as a nation, do best:)
Specially when Obama discovers, 1st hand, that his military cannot succeed at either counter-insurgency or counter-terrorism as laid out by their own plans.
I believe it's called "Gross Domestic Happiness".
Sounds trite perhaps, and certain nation-states are probably the best models; but the notion is sound and the structure workable.
Your ignorance is astonishing, you remind me of DavidBrooks, droning on and on in reasonable monotone about things the nature of which he knows nothing about; re-hashing talking points of subjects beyond his actual knowledge.
His words do nothing other than reflect his trust in the Establishment; overlooking the massive fail of the system because it doesn't touch him personally.
For starters try reading Dr. Carl Hart's
"High Price: A Neuroscientistâ(TM)s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society"
Or, just continue to be a sock-puppet and stay in the kill-filter
and long time visitors of commandlinefu.com
as well
(middle-class) white is the new brown:)
The WOT is not a loose-canon, but a sign of the New World Order; which is why (most/many) pols, when so informed, just STFU and go along.
"last 40 years..."
Think about it. The PigInPython passed flat since Regan, to the point of looking like 'managed' growth.
What the WOT represents is a projection of the resource wars to come and the enevitable displacement of 300-400 million people world-wide.
What with blowback and all, its a view of a future I'd rather not entertain.
P.S.
Though I'm fond of sshX, NX, X11VNC, etc...
One fault I have w/entranced is its inability to do XDMCP and my wishlist includes it being as capable in that regard as KDE.
Hi:
Long time E user here. Its a WM (IMO), but if you want the DE then use Entranced; as my belief is that a DE begins at the login screen should you so desire it.
regarding earlier posts on segfaulting, E17 is/was the only WM that restored itself (mostly) on "something bad....." happening where other WM's just totally crashed. E remote is another feature i really appreciate; being able to control :0 from a terminal (if they would only revert to the previous - more robust - version).
Though building E from svn suggests its far from 'light' it certainly more lite than gnome or kde.
For the past 5-6 years the push as been in the automotive markets.
My only hangup is having to compile options; not having a text file for options was/is almost a deal-breaker regardless of ease of compiling a cfg.
Aside: I really wish that a WM/DE could remember (via ps and wmctrl i suppose) what all of my desktops are doing. Real session management would spare me from having to record each/every job in each/every xterm in the event of a crash.
It would be similar to FF sessions. Crash? just restore the last session. I'd switch in a heartbeat to any WM/DE that provided said feature.
Contrats to Rasterman and all the E-lovers out there!
Hi:
I had a bear named Pookie when I was a young child and in some strange way, you sort of resemble my memory of him:)
I did discover not too long ago that my dear pookie-bear might have been, in fact, a pooka-bear!
a (poor) ref:
www.irelandseye.com/paddy3/preview2.htm
and defining 'harm and mischief' w/salty-grains.
But my pookie-bear always did, really, I mean really, keep my head spinning with (too) many things to see and do. And I never seemed to fall asleep until late in the night. Often sleep in class. But I was a sports "contender", made qualifying time for olympic tryouts, active and in-training up to the point I wasn't.
I'd like to think that you and all 'diagnosed/labeled' people are afflicted more by trying to adjust to NT-world and the insanity that hierarchial, patriarchial, culture is trying to impose.
Taking speed, SSRI's, certainly has the ability to enhance focus, provide grounding; but cannot claim to improve on where to place one's focus. Think capacity for self-decption, for intstance, as a barrier pills won't cure. Ah, hindsight! What was I thinking?!
I do not see as much benefit in pharma treating the symptoms ('fidgity', disorganized, slooooow, com-challenged, ...) as the means of 'fitting' in well enough to be self-sufficient; happiness notwithstanding. But you are still a round peg in a land of square holes; the cat around packs of dogs.
It's not a question of trying harder because you retreat 2 steps for every 5 advanced; or persevering long enough to finish what you started AOT recognizing what got started was not what you thought so move on.
Its accepting that the bridge(s) that the majority (NT) cross is not your bridge to cross. You'll always be behind, playing catch-up; not unlike a non-native living in say, Beijing. No tickee, no washee.
Its about not subjecting yourself to getting picked on bec you don't know the language or rules to the game.
There is prob no such thing as un-assisted living.
we survive by the networks and groups we identify with; in the companionship of a partner.
Sufficient is not the same as self-reliance. My hope is in finding the tech to provide alternative learning experiences. I'm sure there must be some google metric for the impact that search alone must be having on society and its' fringes.
I'm also sure there lurks a connection between left/right brain dominance and career/trade inclinations; though it seems more organic than planned perhaps. Maybe starting young enough and offering the right attention feedback mechanisms can deliver some way to develop self-understanding; one's dispositions and strengths and weaknesses enough to offer more and better choices in finding and actualizing their passions.
We need a happier world and so much sadness is either self-inflicted or internalized imprints of messages society needs us to believe for it to function.
Good luck, pookie-bear. And if you are a pooka even you know nothing's what it seems
Otherwise, wag more, bark less and keep you self out of the brainstorms.
Thanks for the correction. I think I was trying to say that glucose was a more important sugar and that obtaining it from sucrose was an inefficient way to providing energy
Or that sucrose does little to affect blood glucose levels but does process the fructose into lipids quickly and is high-glycemic.
Thanks for your post and I'm glad you focused more on "social" than "economic"; though they are inextricably linked. Albiet that stress makes no distinction in boundaries, it's safe to say that the poor are worse off for their stressors.
I fully agree that income factors into individual diet and nutrition. But a rich fat-cat who can afford to eat out at the priciest restaurants that obtain the very best and freshest can still be just as unhealthy as the skin-n-bones pan-handler or the fatty coming out of MacDonalds next door. Obesity is a side effect of food science; playing to taste, texture, flavor.... Whether at the levels of haute-cuisine or the snack aisle at "Super Big Food" store.
I suggest reading "Wheat Belly" to get a better understanding of the dynamics. Put it next to "Grain Brain" on the book shelf.
With the exception of grazers, grass-eating foodies etc.. we are a seed-eating species. These seeds can be tight hull'd (pre-triticum) vs no hull (triticum). The original wheat: 'einkorn' got crossed w/goatgrass to produce 'emmer' which then crossed to produce wheat in general: "triticum aestivum" - as a natural species of wheat. Hybridization of that produced 'triticum duram', a pasta wheat with a higher Glyc index #.
New wheat is easier to grow, more useful in processing and baking; Old wheat is/was way more nutritous, .29% protein vs .10 in new.
Its all about ratings on the glycemic index.
New wheat is unhealthy due to its chemical nature
making people more prone to obesity, insulin imbalances, diabetes,
My (amateur) understanding is:
Carbs:
break into 3 groups: amylopectin A,B,C
that rapidly gets converted to a branching glucose unit (a sugar(a carb))
Amylo-A (wheat) has more digestable fiber, the others less so. but in Amylo-B (fruits) and C (beans) the fibers moves digestion to better get into blood stream.
THe higher the rated glycemic index the higher blood sugar, higer insulin production and more fat as stored energy.
New wheat has a higher glycemic index (.72) than raw sugar or table sugar (.59), so new wheat carbs are easy to digest; but do not give enough high protein value.
New wheat is a major contributor to gluten intolerance and is (partially@least) responsible for creating secondary problems like ciliac desease or C.difficle or Clymatia because bacteria and yeasts go all kookoo for sugary cocco-puffs.
Sugars:
Glutens (carbs) come in 3 forms A,B,D
A/B are found in old wheat - einkorn, emmer,....
the 'D' genome of gluten allows for better baking propertiess (for the light-n-fluffy breads/pastries we eat).
But D gets processed so fast it does little to aid in digesting other foods, resulting in constipation. This undigested food produces more bacteria (some of which is bad, or less good).
Glucose, a carb, is a complex sugar, where fructose and sucrose are simple sugars. The inability to process food correctly give a pathway for the simple sugars to go undigested and wreak havoc on the gut flora.
Without new wheat the body would more effiently processes food as it should; w/new wheat in your system, Amylo-A depletes the bodys ability to digest, converting glucose->insulin->fats which get burned or stored - one or the other
New wheat in our diet increases being prone to adverse reactions, like prolonged antibiotic usage
or constipation, or gas. Some mental disorders are fueled by wheat and affects exorphins - google wheat-brain connection
I apologize for dumping this on your post, but wanted to put my thoughs on the subject somewhere apropos.
What I'm trying to say is that our world-view, our reality, is shaped by not being critical of those things we want to believe because they fit so nicely w/our pre-concieved notions.
Our biases, how we were raised, what was imprinted upon us, what is expedient, convenient... is the 1st hurdle to controlling natural human reactivity and use objectivity to get a more