[khaled] We are too busy chasing our tail. And the sad part is that we have fallen victim to an artificially created market.
Here is an example. If you stop and think about it it's but a small example of how I see western society, especially american society operates. Wheat as a whole, in moderate amounts, is good for you. Whole wheat bread is better for you than white bread. But through conditioning, we have become accustomed and demand white bread. in order to make white bread, all kinds of goods are extracted from that bread. Well white bread is not exactly good for you, it lacks fiber. Laxatives and fiber enriched drinks to the rescue. What's in all these laxatives? Fiber of course Well the good stuff had been extracted out of the whole wheat bread to make the bread white and yummy. Now you are having to pay for a fiber laxative that you have chosen to omit in the first place from your diet. On and on it goes. [Krimel] Zizik makes some interesting observations along these lines: "On today's market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol... And the list goes on: what about virtual sex as sex without sex, the Colin Powell doctrine of warfare with no casualties (on our side, of course) as warfare without warfare, the contemporary redefinition of politics as the art of expert administration as politics without politics, up to today's tolerant liberal multiculturalism as an experience of Other deprived of its Otherness..." On the flip side he offers, "The structure of the >chocolate laxative,< of a product containing the agent of its own containment..." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
