Missed it.

DC Bound — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:59:29 +0000

In reply to Earth Hour is the New Black

Missed it.

Here's a relevant quote from

Michael Wolraich — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:26:00 +0000

In reply to Earth Hour is the New Black

Here's a relevant quote from a talk I saw by Slavoj Zizek, the "Elvis of Cultural Theory." He's a bit of a clown, imo, but I liked this bit:

This is why I find so problematic this whole stuff with organic food and so on. Do you really believe that if you the buy the apples--so-called organic apples, which are usually more rotten and cost half more, do you really believe that they are more healthy? No. It’s also not competition, but it makes you feel well, you know, like, “My God, I participate in something great. I am not just a stupid consumer. I show solidarity with it.”

It’s the threat that I encounter here every day when I unfortunately have to go to Starbucks coffee. You know, like, practically they make you feel that with each cup of coffee you save some Guatemalan kid from starvation or whatever...

You see that poster everywhere, some deformed black child and then “for a price of one cappuccino you can save his life,” whatever. The message, I think, if you read it between the lines, it’s a pretty cynical one, is, “Pay a little bit and it will make you feel better and you don’t have to worry about it and you don’t have to politicize it and so on and so on.”

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Missed it.

Here's a relevant quote from