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Escaping the Tyranny of Categories

Here is a fantastic recipe for spaghetti sauce.  I don't eat a lot of carbohydrates, though - and rarely eat pasta.  If I'm going to eat carbs, I'm going to pizza or cookies.  Yet one can find many fantastic uses for the spaghetti sauce when one no longer calls it "spaghetti sauce."  Thus, the problem of categories.We hear spaghetti sauce, and that limits our thinking.  We can't help ourselves.  We are categorical thinkers.  Ideas, like items, go into nice little boxes.Maybe we'll get dangerous and use it on penne pasta.  Maybe.  Yet when you pretend that the item is not "spaghetti sauce," why uses can you find for it?The ingredients sound fantastic.  I could add more goat sausage, and thus eat the meal like a stew.  I could treat it like a dip, using flax seed crackers as a canvas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on March 08, 2009 (boomark / email).