01.22.09
Preening, self-congratulatory bohemian bourgeois consumerism, taken to its logical conclusion, winds up looking a lot like . . .
. . . free market economics. Bookworm points up the unintended silliness of a New York Times article on where the local / global thing has taken itself.
I’ve made this observation for years. As I’d stroll down the aisles of health-food stores, looking at cereal brands such as Barbara’s, Health Valley and Kashi, I’d ask myself, “What’s the difference, in the minds of the NPR / peace-diversity-and-social-justice / transgendered bathroom / meditation-and-contortion crowd, between these brands and General Mills and Kellogg? Groovy hippies made the ones in here. The others were made by greedy white male corporations.”
