The British eat 97 % of the world’s baked beans (fact).
Baked beans are very Epicurean. They should be eaten at dead of night by torchlight under the blankets in boarding school dormitories. Eaten at breakfast time they are the wrong color and are boring.
Epicurus himself would have been a baked bean lover. This is because he was so cerebral and pre-preoccupied with thought that opening a can would have been convenient to him. Other people in his Garden might have contented themselves with some of his olives.
(P.S This post is weird, and is only posted to attract attention. Any attempt to infer a sense of humor by the reader must mean that the wrong people are coming on to this blog)
Why must the interpretation of philosophy be so turgid and dull and require lengths of words out of proportion to the importance of the thoughts that are conveyed by them?
Lighten up.
Philosophy – turgid….dull…longwinded….? a device to filter out those who do not have the luxury of contemplating anything else than where the next slice of bread is coming from.
But you mustn’t take it all too seriously. This is an excuse to take issues and try to work out what you think about them, and what Epicurus might have thought about them. It is equivalent to aerobic exercise for the brain (o.k, not very aerobic!), but it’s better than not thinking at all.