Pragmatic frameworks are not chosen, like food from a menu or
toppings from a list. Practical experiences of human
self-constitution within a pragmatic framework are the concrete
embodiments of belonging to such a pragmatics. A new pragmatic
framework negates the previous one, but does not eliminate it.
Although these points were made in earlier chapters, there is a
specific reason for dealing with them again here. As opposed to
other experiences, nourishment is bound to involve more elements
of continuity than science or the military. As we have already
seen, literacy-based forms of preparing and eating food exist
parallel to illiterate nourishment. This is the reason why some
peculiar forms of social redistribution of food need to be
discussed.