On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Arlo Bensinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> . I've often heard the same thing about the popularity of "chain" > restaurants; you know what you're gonna get, that plate of pasta will be > exactly identical to the plate of pasta you had at this chain in Orlando or > Seattle. No confusion. No surprise. > We didn't evolve in strange surroundings. All our social and intellectual development started out from staying in familiar places and interacting with familiar faces. Surely modern man needs in a deeply existential angsty way, tv programs to give him the illusion of familiarity and sameness in his eatery to prevent some mass psychic meltdown. In other words, its not a problem fixable by antagonistically zoning Starbucks into oblivion. Not that you were suggesting such, Arlo. But I've noticed many decrying this corporate culturalism and I don't think there are any easy answers. John the uneasy answerer 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/
