It's "after a while" already, Rob. Were I live and work, there are no local independants, and the few that are actually suck worse than the big boys. There's a local hamburger joint near where I work. I ate there a couple of times -- I think they change their french fry grease at least anually...
Recently a small locally owned 'cajun' restaurant went in near work. They serve frozen pre-prepared seafood -- 50 mile from the fucking gulf of Mexico! And they are not cheap, either.
Don't get me started on the pathetic produce section at the locally owned grocery store, compared to what I can get at one of three big chains just down the road.
> One thing I notice in a lot of cultural studies people is
> the logic of 'if the ordinary people consume it, it's
> undemocratic and elitist to look down on it'.
I'm no cult stud and this has got nothing to do with "being down with the people". It is simply a fact of life and any attempt to believe you can 'responsibly' consume is a big fat lie that you tell yourself and other.
> ain't all beer and skittles. It enforces and encourages
> just the sort of bland standardising crap Carl was on about
> earlier. And that's what we're talking about, for mine.
> The remorseless decline of human experience and sensation
Yeah, I wonder how the PR business fits into this bland standardization thingy...
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