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Boxes: A Social Commentary

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, k eep your boxes in bigger storage boxes. Store people away by convincing them to live in boxes. Travel in separate boxes.

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Boxes: A Social Commentary

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  1. Boxes: A Social Commentary By Michael Barrett

  2. What do you do with what you want to store away? Put it in boxes, of course

  3. When you have too much stuff, keep your boxes in bigger storage boxes

  4. Store people away by convincing them to live in boxes

  5. Travel in separate boxes

  6. Work on a box

  7. In a boxed work environment

  8. In a big box built to store companies

  9. In a boxed city

  10. Put education in boxes

  11. Teach with boxes

  12. Learn from boxes

  13. Prove your intelligence with boxes

  14. Prove your expertise with boxes

  15. It starts as soon as you’re born

  16. Put your racial identity in a box

  17. Box your religious views

  18. Box your sex

  19. Regiment political participation with boxes

  20. Talk about solving problems around a box

  21. Pay with boxes

  22. Write with boxes

  23. Communicate with boxes

  24. Passively entertain yourself with a box

  25. Passively entertain the masses with boxes

  26. Regiment mass spirituality with boxes

  27. Seize peoples’ energy with boxes

  28. Farm in boxes

  29. Put food in boxes

  30. Cook in boxes

  31. Shop in a big box

  32. Shop with a smaller box

  33. Better yet, box stores in a box mall

  34. After you have lived your life to the fullest, you get put in a box.

  35. “We’re always putting things in boxes. All thoughts, all words are labels on 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

  36. “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

  37. “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

  38. Death Valley What comes to mind when you hear this name? Photo: Bob Canfield

  39. Photo: Nicole Inclan

  40. “Earthrise” -1968

  41. Boxes Physical Conceptual Isolation Regimentation Stereotypes Prejudice Individual Discrimination Oppression Institutional Power Societal

  42. Paradigm Metaphors • Industrial • Utility • Linearity • Conformity • Standardization • Organic • Vitality • Creativity • Diversity • Customization -Metaphors by Sir Ken Robinson

  43. Photo: Nicole Inclan

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