An organic is a person who resists leverage. It's a very simple concept. If you can get something for nothing, you shouldn't trust it. For example if you go to a big name school, you shouldn't boast about it. Or better yet if you have a choice between competency and celebrity, choose competency. That's not all there is to it but I don't want to get into details in definitional directions.
The point is that I've noticed that there are a lot of American cultural things that I have never bothered with or even considered. So I've decided to make a list of Americana that I've not really done. This is not a commentary on their quality so much as it is a definition of my apathy. I'm not consciously avoiding them, just sayin eh, whatever. In no particular order, here are things I know a lot of people know and care about that I've never made it a priority to really check out. Movies I haven't seen, bands whose sound or songs I am completely ignorant of. Foods on the menu I never order.
1. Field of Dreams
2. Dixie Chicks
3. Spring Training
4. Italian Food
5. Gone With the Wind
I can't remember the rest of the things I don't know. Sports I don't play, I suppose. I know all the rules except for Hockey and Cricket. But hockey has got to be like soccer, like field hockey, like lacrosse, like all the games with a goalie. I don't know CPR or Lamaze. I don't know any of the people on American Idol or any soap opera. I don't know how to say thank you in Portuguese.
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