> > >"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...
>
> As the quote points out, the reason you feel that way is because of the way
> our oppressive society is structured.
>
> Joe R. Golowka
> JoeG at ieee.org
> Anarchist FAQ - http://www.anarchistfaq.org
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Brad's not oppressed Joe. Repressed, maybe, but defintitely not oppressed.
Ian
>
> "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 -- and so forth. It
> is only people who can't get what they want who resign themselves to want
> more of what they can get. Since we cannot be friends and lovers, we wail
> for more candy." - Bob Black
>