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compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am
darkbaptist) wrote in compnetwork2012-11-21 11:33 am
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1st Conception - Video
[The communication starts with a hissing sound, like you'd hear in a low burn, and then focuses on the source of the noise: two skillets being set down on the burners of a stove. Around the counter viewers can make out cooking ingredients: a stick of butter, margerine, salt, eggs, chocolate, a whipping spoon. After a few seconds Hikawa begins to speak.]
As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.
It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.
[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]
Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.
[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]
While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.
So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-
[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]
Or the dish made with chocolate?
[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
As odd as it might seem to introduce myself in such a way, I would like to take a survey. A survey dealing on culinary tastes, you might say, to see what people would prefer.
It will be a simple choice focusing on two types of simple egg dishes. Most people seem to enjoy eggs, whether they be scrambled, poached, sunny side up, or what have you. But now matter how you might enjoy them there is a single base for all of them: butter.
[On camera the man takes a knife and, cutting a part from the block of butter, puts it into one of the skillets where it begins to melt.]
Not only does butter add flavor to the egg, but it keeps it from sticking to the pan and being burnt. But for the sake of those who perhaps don't like butter, let us try another substance to take its place. Let us say...chocolate.
[Hikawa breaks off a chunk of the chocolate in front of him and puts it in the other skillet. It begins to melt, sizzling a bit. Afterwards Hikawa breaks four eggs, putting two in each skillet and stirring each one as he continues to speak.]
While one might experiment in cooking, cooking also has rules that in the end cannot be denied if you want a satisfactory meal. You can replace some things in a dish, but you can't replace others, and if you go to far in your experimentation you make a dish none can enjoy instead of all.
So tell me. Which would you prefer. The eggs made with butter-
[He focuses the camera, showing a skillet of neat, well-made scrambled eggs.]
Or the dish made with chocolate?
[The other skillet, however, is not fairing so well. Much of the chocolate has burnt and stuck to the sides of the skillet, while turning the eggs it has mixed in an ugly brownish color. It seems to have failed as well to keep the eggs from sticking to the pan, as much of the eggs themselves is burnt into the metal of it, leaving streaks of white and yellow gunk along with burnt brown.]
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It wasn't because I was stubborn, either. It was just something that shouldn't have been possible, but... there was a miracle. Opinions are wonderful things. They can change, just like a person can. Even so, there are some opinions that never change, yes, but...
I think that's alright too. I don't see it as being stubborn, as much as having faith in your opinion. Even if it is holding an opinion out of stubbornness, isn't that wonderful? It's a sign of individuality. No one is the same.
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Individuality is a two edged sword, and many times it does more harm than good. Man, ruled by his passions, treads a path constantly towards self destruction because of it.
Man must learn to temper those passions by any means necessary.
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I've heard something similar, before. "The moment man devoured the fruit of knowledge, he sealed his fate..."
I'd like to think it does more good, though. Even if it can tread a path towards self destruction, it's something that is still wonderful. I think most things are like that, really. Something that can cause good or bad. I've personally seen it do more good than harm. I can still see how it could be a double edged sword, at least.