#FoodForThought - Y’all ever wonder why the letter B and the number 8 look similar. Also, doesn’t it make a lot more sense for 3 to be half the value of 8 and not 4. 3 is basically half an 8. I mean who got to decide the values we apply to numbers???

Now let’s have a cultural conversation of why we do what we do and believe what we believe and feel we need irrelevant products based off of social conformities and cultural biases. Like you ain’t no nothing about anything until you actually experience a respective culture.

It is crazier that we brand ourselves by wearing specific clothes. I ain’t gotta say a thing to someone, yet the moment a stranger sees me wearing Carhartt they have an instant opinion of me based off of Carhartt’s marketing and other people they know who wear that brand.

FOOD - Another INCREDIBLE bias! The most important part about food is that it’s safe. Whether its meat, dairy, eggs, vegetables, or whatever the heck you want to eat. I think there’s definitely personal branding even in our diets and what we choose to eat. What a privilege!!!

Highly recommend watching this documentary!! I loved it!!! I watched it on @hulu. However, it can be found elsewhere. @foodevomovie

I believe scientists and researchers deserve the same clout and admiration as entertainers/ pop culture figures. Yet, if they were as closely followed, could this lead to an increase in faulty unreproducible research as seen in the above documentary?

Continuing the food convo, in China eating dog/cat is regional. This bias needs to end. I did eat some “exotic” types of food in China, that doesn’t make me less moral. SAFE production/prep of food of any sort is what matters. Even the US is regional in what we like to eat.

Additionally, in regards to cultural perceptions, here’s a picture of an obese Captain America with a beer mug in his hand. I took this picture while in a grocery store in China.

Its crazy how tools like social media marketing impacts cultural perception and effects how we behave and interact. These tools are so powerful that they control entire groups of people by only showing you stuff that mirrors stuff you like or is familiar to you. That’s dangerous.

Thanks for joining my delusional TedTalk. *Viewpoints in this thread were condensed to tweet size to provide mental stimulation for both reader and composer. Possible run on sentences do not represent my intellect but rather careless regard for punctuation due to exhaustion.+