"These crops, like the people who cultivated them, were implicated in backwardness and of traditionalism. What liberals meant by production was production of crops for export, especially coffee."
Synecdoche for global trade with GDP as the highest good achievable.
This was a really insightful and sobering analysis of what life in postmodern Globohomo America has become.
<<"We are like modern, urban mozos, we labor for wages in a world owned by a few others, for whom we shuffle from place to place to service; and they scorn us just the same. The difference seems to be that our elite have concocted a system of pervasive electronic stimulation and an industrially produced diet of processed slog that together keep most people distracted, fat, sick, and drug-addled.">>
"These crops, like the people who cultivated them, were implicated in backwardness and of traditionalism. What liberals meant by production was production of crops for export, especially coffee."
Synecdoche for global trade with GDP as the highest good achievable.
This was a really insightful and sobering analysis of what life in postmodern Globohomo America has become.
<<"We are like modern, urban mozos, we labor for wages in a world owned by a few others, for whom we shuffle from place to place to service; and they scorn us just the same. The difference seems to be that our elite have concocted a system of pervasive electronic stimulation and an industrially produced diet of processed slog that together keep most people distracted, fat, sick, and drug-addled.">>
Sadly, that is so very spot on.