soup thoughts

(October 2021. Straight up just some thoughts I had while making soup at Omega Point in Menlo Park. There’s some deep lesson here about liberalism, diversity, novelty, grouping, government, value, etc. But it’s also just soup thoughts.)

pouring the beef n veggies soup
two cans in the pot will be two bowls
and i realize the floatier things will be more represented in bowl one
and thicker things like the square white potatoes will be more represented in bowl two
(due to the mechanics of soup transfer)
and my first instinct is an invitation to value,
to make a top and a bottom and a choice,
a hierarchy along my habits of value
and i feel bad for the poor dreg potatoes
and for myself a bowl from now eating them.
and so i have the urge to make both bowls as diverse as possible,
to take a lot of time and effort to correct the differences,
to scoop potatoes and such into bowl one.
but then i realized that my correction would make the two different bowls identical,
and to act thus would destroy diversity, not create it,
for me, the referential soup taster.
there is no hierarchy outside of my tastebuds,
bowl one will be well and bowl two will be well,
and i will be all the more well for experiencing them both separately,
together in me.

i have just eaten a light floaty bowl of small slices of carrot and green bean and suchlike,
and the potatoes in it were good too.
i ought to stop writing and pour myself another bowl.
it will also be the first.