periphery

There's an article in Go Animal today about peripheral vision. I think it's written all wrong. That is, he has a point, but he goes about his point poorly. There's validity, for instance, in the idea that school is frequently anti-peripheral-thinking (that is, thinking which is global and wide-focused).

Unless I'm just a complete freak, what I think the invention of the cubicle did was make your focus more multi-dimensional. You can't just scan to the sides - you have to go up as well as around (or at least I do). And all the technology he gripes about is in fact supportive of peripheral thinking, metaphorically.

Yeah, well, people who are really excited about food and movement that are good for you are frequently also convinced that progress and industry are evil. It's annoying.

Today I really like the word periphery.