Fw: Mass Direct Action in India Planned

[Brad DeLong]

>"According to the libertarian litany, if an industry or an institution is
>making a profit, it is satisfying "wants" whose origins and content are
>deliberately disregarded. But what we want, what we are capable of wanting
>is relative to the forms of social organization. People "want" fast food
>because they have to hurry back to work, because processed supermarket food
>doesn't taste much better anyway, because the nuclear family (for the
>dwindling minority who have even that to go home to) is too small and too
>stressed to sustain much festivity in cooking and eating...

I don't know about you, but I just don't feel like cooking tonight. 
And I can have a lot more festivity in cooking and eating by stopping 
at Uncle Yu's on the way home...

Brad DeLong