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Welcome back to The Beauty Inside-Out Beautician blog for Raise the Roots "The Tri-on". In this second part, we bring to you more from Traditions, Customs, and Symbolic Interactions with an emphasis on Bags and Buses.
What about them? .. and what makes this an important moment? Let's Raise the Roots.
Like a proverb you can hear the wisdom falling over you as you walk thru the aisles of the travel sections of your favorite store. Hardly do we argue between totes and backpacks. It appears to be a matter for the sexes, but in the case of Bags and Buses, Homelessness, and the mix up between Collars; its anybody's matter.
It's an easy road these days for a man to carry a tote. I think it began with those one or two dollar recyclable totes. It's also an easy road for him if he's homeless. If we take a look at today's changing traditions, we're forced to ask "Where is the landing strip?" Likewise, let's take a look at how a bag can change the direction of your interactions; leaving you with more symbols than you have space to google.
The question is which do you appear to be? .. wanderer, traveler, free loader, visitor, blue collar, black collar, or a united collar. But what's the story of collars? Perhaps we need one place to try it all on. While you're interviewing the bus driver to answer the question, The Beauty Inside-Out Beautician is coming to you live from a day in buses. One day two, one day three, one day five or six.. I got enough buses to catch to get in on the matter. Who's hiding behind a waterproof bag and a seventeen dollar umbrella? And while the blue collar in the driver's seat is trying to decide if he or she should pull the bus to the curb or let you take the hike through the rear door, black collars are watching and growing savvy. How savvy? Is it a matter of tradition; bags and buses? Or is it a matter of customs? When your bus hits a sharp turn, and you find yourself off the route you'd hope to be on, did you know that the interaction held between you and the driver would become a symbolic interaction? Well, check your bag or carrier. That's the bag you chose not your white collar sky handler. It's not just a tiny matter of space or tidiness, it's a matter of person, showers, meals, locations, and who can see.
In this Raise the Roots, is there a sense that buses have always been the place to be sized up? What if your bus driver is the one holding the key to how you'll be seen, heard, and understood. All without your permission, did you give away your freedom with a free ride. In a census year, with a pandemic holding its cards and keeping us circular on the hunt for facial coverings, gloves, and sanitizers.. did we miss the messenger bag? While all the cases are pending, it's a true clash of the space holders. Sexy pull cases with wheels like the ones from Ezekiel's dream, vertical duffles, overgrown backpacks, lunch bags stuffed with toiletries, plastic bag lunches, and perhaps the "driver" is the only one who can make heads or tales of it all. But when did blue collars become the wardens of society? When dealing with patterns of behavior, cutting back on the shopping bags to see what else one might carry is easy to see if the bus is free.
Lingering behind all the bustle and the hustle of frantic riders, is an invisible cloud of language. Symbolic! Maybe. But most importantly, it's one you're not allowed to speak. Like a proverb: the beginning of wisdom is to get wisdom. Like a custom: the end of social hand picking is to see the eyes on your bag. The one carrying the single vertical duffle is probably more like a wanderer. The one with the backpack is probably more than a free luncher. And the one with a bundle of cloths in hand is probably just a thrifter.
Before you vote in the year of a census, take a bus ride or two. Load up. Miss a stop. Go to the end of the route. Try it once with a shopping bag. Try it again with a lunch bag. Do it in the evening. Go to the beach in the morning. Then vote or look for your no vote option. United collars is one that has to see the social experimentation checked at the door. And the door remains in November not December.
This November we take on the Political System by calling for a list of changes, but first, can we have a "NO Vote Option"?
No VOTE: No Victory Over the Education
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