[lbo-talk] US immiseration

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Mar 7 12:38:30 PST 2007


Carl Remick takes a pop at me, since I am in trouble for saying that Americans are not starving. But what does Carl say about the impoverished yanks?

Strangely, Carl does not seem to give much credence to the idea that Americans are hard done by, at least not those in the Red States:

"Since the Red States are the locus of the most virulent strains of the obesity epidemic, it occurs to me it might be feasible to leverage this self-destructive gluttony by encouraging Red Staters to stuff themselves with as much artery-clogging, heart-stopping, mortality-accelerating saturated fat as possible. If as you suggest these tubby Jesus Freaks can be induced to actually consume one another, so much the better."

In fact, Carl has a bit of a thing about how fat Americans are:

"No wonder Americans are such porkers" he writes, and

"the sovereign wisdom of the U.S. electorate deems GWB the obvious choice to save their sorry sizable behinds."

When I suggested that there was nothing wrong with Americans' aspirations to better themselves, Carl snapped:

"there are indeed millions of go-getter, happy-as-clams Americans who think exactly like you? Come on over, grab some financing, fire up a bulldozer and start building."

And far from thinking that Americans were hard done by, he thought they were principle architects of their own difficulties:

"Yes, "Little Boxes" radiates contempt -- for the houses, the people who live in them, and the pointless conformist lives they lead."



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