That’s all, folks!

I have rarely seen such a serious thread spin into inspired lunacy so wonderfully.

Long live the carrott/banana controversy. When will we see a thorough documentary on this important subject by the BBC?

The world wonders…

Logic therefore suggests that the idea of the carrot as an actual existent is the result of mass hypnosis, possibly an example of mass hysteria and panic brought on by the existence of Mr. Bootle’s theories; or, in terms of the Root Cause (of the panic, not of the carrot), the existence of Mr. Bootle himself.

No, I’m pretty sure this is true because I read it on the internet.

It was Bug’s Bunny that created the carrot allusion. Because he is always alluding to a carrot. Disney tried to trademark the carrot but they couldn’t because Bugs Bunny works for Warner Brothers. It turn out they had to pay royalties to Peter Cottontail and Mr. MacGregor because of trademark infringement.

All clear now?

I sincerely hope this is not the case as just last evening I had for supper a lentil soup whose enjoyability was enhanced by the inclusion of chopped carrots in the pot. I do hope I was not merely in grip of Bootlean gustatory hallucination

False consciousness?

Alisa, you raise an extremely nettlesome point. To wit:

The curvature of the banana being, as your citation shows, naturally mandated, one must assume that the banana itself is naturally mandated; thus, it exists. It is, in a manner of speaking, “the container for the thing contained” (the latter being the curvature in question).

The carrot, lacking any natural mandate as to its attributes, characteristics, or qualities, may not exist at all; since that which exists must exist as something, which somethingness we apprehend only as a result of its attributes &c.

Logic therefore suggests that the idea of the carrot as an actual existent is the result of mass hypnosis, possibly an example of mass hysteria and panic brought on by the existence of Mr. Bootle’s theories; or, in terms of the Root Cause (of the panic, not of the carrot), the existence of Mr. Bootle himself.

I sincerely hope this is not the case as just last evening I had for supper a lentil soup whose enjoyability was enhanced by the inclusion of chopped carrots in the pot. I do hope I was not merely in grip of Bootlean gustatory hallucination….

But one cannot argue with basic logic.