09-28-2013, 07:23 PM
(09-28-2013, 05:31 AM)DeeBye Wrote: WTF dude?!!?
I was just talking about buying a loaf of bread.
Everyone needs to chill out and eat some toast.
It's typical mainstream bullshit to say that you can "just" talk about buying a loaf of bread.
Each loaf of bread is inextricably bound into the social systems that baked it: the land, depleted by the short-termist self-exploitation, all to fuel meaningless consumption desires created by an incessant barrage of advertising; the grain, engineered to chain poor farmers around the world to the products of big agrobusiness like Monsanto; the labour of formerly skilled artisan bakers, devalued by competition from corporations in search of the almightly dollar; the retail chain of the christian fundamentalist asshole oligarchy of Wal-Mart.
No, this is bullshit. There is no "just" talking about buying a loaf of bread. It's all tied together in the same social system, and you're either an idiot or a liar if you say you can't see the chains.
-Jester