We’re all in on the culture war now

  • ProfessorPuzzleCode@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I tell you what, I’ll go one better, that I hope illustrates my point. I told this to every American I ever met and, so far, only 1 learnt from it.

    It’s OK to be hungry.

    You have the “freedom to eat whenever you want, whereveryou want it”, but you can eat so much that you die. You can eat as little as you like, so little that you also die. Your freedom you eat whatever you want, whenever you want is an illusion, driven by outrageous commercialism.

    You do not have the freedom to eat whatever you want, whenever you want. You think you do.

    Edited for autocorrect, I don’t even have the freedom to type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Way to dodge the question with a philosophical yarn. You probably just don’t have a real answer.

      Everybody knows about the vices of excess consumption. That is not a useful metaphor relevant to individual freedom. Living a free life doing what you want does not require or even imply consuming an excess of anything.