Just happened on this thread this morning...
Though it is possible that technology and internationalisation might in some ways and eventually be put to good uses, at the moment they're fucking most folks sideways. That those of us who have the mother wit to point out the obvious -- that agribusiness is ruining our food and corporatisation in general our communities -- should be accused of sentimentality by someone who calls himself a leftist is nothing short of laughable.
As is the supporting idea that Empire offers the best "potential for liberation". Small wonder that you should be thought guilty of making an appeal to authority, here! What is Empire to us that we should clothe its naked body?
Joanna
At 02:23 24-01-01, you wrote:
>Roger Odisio wrote:
>
>>As a response to Joanna's complaint about the McD-ization of food and
>>culture, this is nonsequitor disguised as an appeal to authority.
>
>It was a response to the sentimental appeal to "local ownership," not
>specifically about food, and it wasn't an appeal to authority, it was a
>quote of a passage that expresses very well something I enthusiastically
>agree with. The point is that technology and internationalization are both
>very good things, in potential, but that that potential is distorted and
>limited by their fate under capitalism.
>
>Doug
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