Daniel Davies wrote:
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> Then everyone got bored of being frightened about eggs and chicken, and
> went back to eating the same stuff. Surely everyone must have been,
> intellectually, aware of the fact that they were being fed 15% fecal soup,
> but they didn't care. There is something more than rational going on here.
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People are sort of tied up in the life they find themselves living at any given time -- & it is quite rational to hang on to that life. This connects with the long thread a year or so ago on changing people through argument. It isn't the time to find out about the danger in the food. It is the time every damn day to think about how one will get to the market, make all those fucking decisions, mess around. One has better things to do -- or it isn't even "better things": it's just getting along and taking into account (every day) diseased eggs is just one damn thing too many. One of a thousand damn things too many. Every day.
Carrol