mounds
what is more productive:
builing a dirt mound that will last thousands of years but which provide no utilitarian purpose..
or...
writing a computer program that no one will ever use and which will dissappear when the computer crashes but which you get paid for...
i guess its an existential debate...which makes you feel satisfied or important or connected?
builing a dirt mound that will last thousands of years but which provide no utilitarian purpose..
or...
writing a computer program that no one will ever use and which will dissappear when the computer crashes but which you get paid for...
i guess its an existential debate...which makes you feel satisfied or important or connected?
posted by huitzilopochtli at
9:42 AM
2 Comments:
Were you thinking of building a mound yourself, or were you referring to mounds that exist in the present-day? Because I think that those did have some sort of purpose when built - though one could debate on whether that was utilitarian...
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Evy, at 12:35 AM
when you see pictures of the mississippi delta during the '27 flood and the cattle that collected on top of old indian mounds, yes, they seem to serve a purpose.
i am not planning on building a mound this year.
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huitzilopochtli, at 7:42 AM
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