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Boxes: A Social Commentary
By Michael Barrett
What do you do with what you want to store away?
Put it in boxes, of course
When you have too much stuff, keep your boxes in bigger storage boxes
Store people away by convincing them to live in boxes
Travel in separate boxes
Work on a box
In a boxed work environment
In a big box built to store companies
In a boxed city
Put education in boxes
Teach with boxes
Learn from boxes
Prove your intelligence with boxes
Prove your expertise with boxes
It starts as soon as you’re born
Put your racial identity in a box
Box your religious views
Box your sex
Regiment political participation with boxes
Talk about solving problems around a box
Pay with boxes
Write with boxes
Communicate with boxes
Passively entertain yourself with a box
Passively entertain the masses with boxes
Regiment mass spirituality with boxes
Seize peoples’ energy with boxes
Farm in boxes
Put food in boxes
Cook in boxes
Shop in a big box
Shop with a smaller box
Better yet, box stores in a box mall
After you have lived your life to the fullest, you get put in a box.
“We’re always putting things in boxes. All thoughts, all words, all labels are boxes; therefore we feel we have to get everything boxed, and so we put ourselves in boxes. Everything is put in boxes, but actually everything else in nature doesn’t go that way.” -Alan Watts
“Wherever human beings have been around you see rectangles and straight lines, because we’re always trying to straighten things out, and so that’s the very mark of our presence.”-Alan Watts
“You can’t fight it, it’s the system. You build everything according to these shapes because they are easy to store away in a place that is a box In the first place.” –Alan Watts
What comes to mind when you hear this name?
Death Valley
Photo: Bob Canfield
Photo: Nicole Inclan
“Earthrise” -1968
Paradigm Metaphors • Industrial – Utility– Linearity– Conformity– Standardization
• Organic– Vitality – Creativity – Diversity– Customization
-Metaphors by Sir Ken Robinson
