[lbo-talk] popularizing philosophy

[Alan Rudy]

Don't get me started.  It's doctors and nurses and teachers and professional
parents and professors here in MI… the radical confusion and wtfiwwy (wtf is
wrong with you) looks we get when we say no to the fourth (or tenth) offer
of the day of candy or juice boxes or a trip to fast food for our kids
leaves my wife and I apoplectic - we even keep score, rather than eat
non-stop, at baseball games… romantic, retrograde, ridicuous, I know.

 "C'mon! They're just Doritos!  Candy makes kids happy, let 'em have some…"

 Every single school event has to be sweetened or salted to death, and not
even as fundraisers… as "treats."

This crap is layered really deeply in mid-MI all across income and status
strata.  It makes us long more and more for the faux green foodie wankerdom
of the Bay Area, or even the technogreen effete cosmopolitanism of New
England, cultures and places that drove us absolutely nuts in the past.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:23 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Nurses? Wow! Wow!
>
> J
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> From: "shag carpet bomb" <shag at cleandraws.com>
>
> yes, i know. i shouldn't be shocked. yes, i know that i had to learn a few
> years ago that most people in the u.s. eat prepackaged crap, etc. yes, i
> know that being a member of the medical profession does not mean you have
> klew one about nutrition.
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Alan P. Rudy
Assistant Professor
Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Central Michigan University
124 Anspach Hall
Mt Pleasant, MI 48858
517-881-6319