What was dysfunctional yet normalized 100 years ago in my USA (racism, sexism, unbridled capitalism) seems “better” (i.e. less desperate, less evil) than what TPTB have normalized in our Degenerate Pop Culture nowadays, fully three generations deep into the 1960’s pop cultural revolution 😔
100 years ago, my great-grandfather was supporting a housewife & six children with manual labor on just his 6th-grade education, and living in a 3 BD/1 BA two-story home that he had built himself 😳 and later had to retrofit for indoor plumbing 😂. This house is outside most of GenZ’s reach; it’s a median price home in a decent school district in the suburban Rustbelt Dayton, Ohio metro region.
You’d have to be a **millionaire** nowadays to keep a housewife & six children in genuine middle class comfort, including building your own home in a median cost of living school district 😂
… “Memory Holing,” TPTB are trying to make us forget that Americans were ever once rich & free & well fed & healthy & lived to be 98 years old without ever contracting the disease of obesity 😂 And that pesky Bill of Rights is the **only** reason the O’Biden administration wasn’t already arresting 30* citizens a day for free speech as they are in Starmer’s commie revolution UK at present! 😳😡😳😡😳😡
*by population size, 30 over there would be like 150(?) per day in the USA 😳
You're right, DJ. That's the entire point. But that's not how the fashion industry, regulators, or advertisers treat us. We are reduced to “bodies” and someone somewhere decided how far a collarbone can protrude before it's deemed unhealthy. That’s the problem — we've been objectified and commodified to the point of absurdity.
Basically, I get what you’re saying about how industry dehumanizes people — totally agree there. I’m just curious about your own writing choices: when you use that same phrasing, is it because you’re quoting their language for effect, or do you feel it’s become the clearest shorthand for readers? Trying to understand how you think about that balance."
After eating meal worms and crickets for lunch what sane person wouldn't want breast milk ice cream for dessert? I can't wait for the WEF to start pushing the health benefits of urine.
We may already be too far down the artificial food road to turn back. Next time you are at the grocery store look at all the "dietary supplements"
We have been down this road for along time. We have had things like Ensure for a long time. Protein powders, breakfast smoothies made from the latest "miracle food", ersatz meats, toffuti, and the like.
That is not even counting the mystery meat chicken nuggets, fake bacon bits, and much, much more.
I now know from experience that our whole entire 2nd-wave “feminist” socioeconomic system is predicated upon processed [institutional] foods, and that the **only** way for parents to fight against the processed foods way of life AND win is to be “wealthy” enough to keep a dedicated stay-at-home parent who will cook only Real Food from scratch, including the snacks & meals that the children will need at school, birthday parties, summer camps, road trips, hospital stays, sleepovers at Grandma’s house, etc..
My wife & I have five children, ages 7-17. If you can get the children to the teen years without developing a Man made sweet tooth, then thereafter they will Mother Naturally reject the processed foods that their peers are addicted to - that I was addicted to in my childhood (b. ‘73) up until I radically changed my diet in 2009.
… The original denigration of women was the denigration of ‘women’s work.’ It turns out that cooking only Real Food from scratch - no restaurants, never!, no packaged & prepared foods, never! - is in itself a full-time job (roughly 40 hours per week, spread out over seven days, 365 days/ year).
You have to be disciplined parents to win out against the Degenerate Pop Culture, plus you need to be a good cook in order to make Real Food that competes & wins against the peer pressure and the various inconveniences involved in raising your kids to be countercultural.
The whole convenience food culture has been using the feminist issue as a wedge rather than being the cause of it. The real driving force is consumerism. It is more profitable to sell prepared foods than to sell raw ingredients. It is more profitable to have someone sitting rapt in front of a subscription streaming service than it is for them to spend their time preparing food. It is more profitable to sell the packaging than it is for people to use their own plates. It is more profitable to have them buy paper plates, paper napkins, and disposable cutlery than them washing their stuff and reusing it.
I will occasionally eat prepared food for things that I don't want to keep in the house or that are a pain to make in small batches. I can go to the bakery and get one cookie or the occasional croissant but I am certainly not going to the trouble of making them from scratch and really don't have any business eating a whole batch of them either. I can make fresh noodles from scratch but I put it in the category of something to do for a special occasion.
There are some new things that I approve of. If you were not raised with cooking as a way of life, I think that the services like "Hello Fresh" are a good way to ease into it. Not as a means to feed yourself but in terms of each meal being a cooking lesson where you learn to read a recipe and prepare things. It wouldn't take long doing that until you could do it on your own. That would enable people to break the cycle and free themselves from their consumer prison if they were not raised with that lifestyle.
“The whole convenience food culture has been using the feminist issue as a wedge rather than being the cause of it.”
That’s right. Processed foods was the technology that “liberated” mothers from the kitchen to the “joys” of f/t employment outside the home. It wasn’t power steering, nor electrified major home appliances, not even the bc pill (because ironically the bc pill has caused **more** unintended pregnancies because of the false sense of security, despite its relatively low fail rate; the effectiveness of the bc pill depends on access to relatively safe & absolutely shameless abortion-as-birth-control).
Nowadays in developing countries, processed foods are enabling Mom to be chained at the loom 20th century style instead of 19th century style. And like us in America, the Indian & Brazilian, etc., moms are getting fat, and their kids are getting autistic, …
… I wonder if a 21st century black plague of processed-foods-induced immune system collapse will follow a 21st century Silk Road out of the USA and spread across the modern industrialized Western democracies first, and then to the developing economies , and I wonder if we’ll be as ignorant as our medieval ancestors were ignorant about the cause of their black plague 🤔🤔🤔
What was dysfunctional yet normalized 100 years ago in my USA (racism, sexism, unbridled capitalism) seems “better” (i.e. less desperate, less evil) than what TPTB have normalized in our Degenerate Pop Culture nowadays, fully three generations deep into the 1960’s pop cultural revolution 😔
100 years ago, my great-grandfather was supporting a housewife & six children with manual labor on just his 6th-grade education, and living in a 3 BD/1 BA two-story home that he had built himself 😳 and later had to retrofit for indoor plumbing 😂. This house is outside most of GenZ’s reach; it’s a median price home in a decent school district in the suburban Rustbelt Dayton, Ohio metro region.
You’d have to be a **millionaire** nowadays to keep a housewife & six children in genuine middle class comfort, including building your own home in a median cost of living school district 😂
… “Memory Holing,” TPTB are trying to make us forget that Americans were ever once rich & free & well fed & healthy & lived to be 98 years old without ever contracting the disease of obesity 😂 And that pesky Bill of Rights is the **only** reason the O’Biden administration wasn’t already arresting 30* citizens a day for free speech as they are in Starmer’s commie revolution UK at present! 😳😡😳😡😳😡
*by population size, 30 over there would be like 150(?) per day in the USA 😳
Serious Question: Why do you use depersonalizing language like "Thin Bodies"? I thought the only bodies were corpses otherwise they're people?
You're right, DJ. That's the entire point. But that's not how the fashion industry, regulators, or advertisers treat us. We are reduced to “bodies” and someone somewhere decided how far a collarbone can protrude before it's deemed unhealthy. That’s the problem — we've been objectified and commodified to the point of absurdity.
Basically, I get what you’re saying about how industry dehumanizes people — totally agree there. I’m just curious about your own writing choices: when you use that same phrasing, is it because you’re quoting their language for effect, or do you feel it’s become the clearest shorthand for readers? Trying to understand how you think about that balance."
After eating meal worms and crickets for lunch what sane person wouldn't want breast milk ice cream for dessert? I can't wait for the WEF to start pushing the health benefits of urine.
Beam me up Scotty, help!!!
Beware the new improved "lemon" popsicles!
Let us know when Scotty gets here!
We may already be too far down the artificial food road to turn back. Next time you are at the grocery store look at all the "dietary supplements"
We have been down this road for along time. We have had things like Ensure for a long time. Protein powders, breakfast smoothies made from the latest "miracle food", ersatz meats, toffuti, and the like.
That is not even counting the mystery meat chicken nuggets, fake bacon bits, and much, much more.
I now know from experience that our whole entire 2nd-wave “feminist” socioeconomic system is predicated upon processed [institutional] foods, and that the **only** way for parents to fight against the processed foods way of life AND win is to be “wealthy” enough to keep a dedicated stay-at-home parent who will cook only Real Food from scratch, including the snacks & meals that the children will need at school, birthday parties, summer camps, road trips, hospital stays, sleepovers at Grandma’s house, etc..
My wife & I have five children, ages 7-17. If you can get the children to the teen years without developing a Man made sweet tooth, then thereafter they will Mother Naturally reject the processed foods that their peers are addicted to - that I was addicted to in my childhood (b. ‘73) up until I radically changed my diet in 2009.
… The original denigration of women was the denigration of ‘women’s work.’ It turns out that cooking only Real Food from scratch - no restaurants, never!, no packaged & prepared foods, never! - is in itself a full-time job (roughly 40 hours per week, spread out over seven days, 365 days/ year).
You have to be disciplined parents to win out against the Degenerate Pop Culture, plus you need to be a good cook in order to make Real Food that competes & wins against the peer pressure and the various inconveniences involved in raising your kids to be countercultural.
The whole convenience food culture has been using the feminist issue as a wedge rather than being the cause of it. The real driving force is consumerism. It is more profitable to sell prepared foods than to sell raw ingredients. It is more profitable to have someone sitting rapt in front of a subscription streaming service than it is for them to spend their time preparing food. It is more profitable to sell the packaging than it is for people to use their own plates. It is more profitable to have them buy paper plates, paper napkins, and disposable cutlery than them washing their stuff and reusing it.
I will occasionally eat prepared food for things that I don't want to keep in the house or that are a pain to make in small batches. I can go to the bakery and get one cookie or the occasional croissant but I am certainly not going to the trouble of making them from scratch and really don't have any business eating a whole batch of them either. I can make fresh noodles from scratch but I put it in the category of something to do for a special occasion.
There are some new things that I approve of. If you were not raised with cooking as a way of life, I think that the services like "Hello Fresh" are a good way to ease into it. Not as a means to feed yourself but in terms of each meal being a cooking lesson where you learn to read a recipe and prepare things. It wouldn't take long doing that until you could do it on your own. That would enable people to break the cycle and free themselves from their consumer prison if they were not raised with that lifestyle.
“The whole convenience food culture has been using the feminist issue as a wedge rather than being the cause of it.”
That’s right. Processed foods was the technology that “liberated” mothers from the kitchen to the “joys” of f/t employment outside the home. It wasn’t power steering, nor electrified major home appliances, not even the bc pill (because ironically the bc pill has caused **more** unintended pregnancies because of the false sense of security, despite its relatively low fail rate; the effectiveness of the bc pill depends on access to relatively safe & absolutely shameless abortion-as-birth-control).
Nowadays in developing countries, processed foods are enabling Mom to be chained at the loom 20th century style instead of 19th century style. And like us in America, the Indian & Brazilian, etc., moms are getting fat, and their kids are getting autistic, …
… I wonder if a 21st century black plague of processed-foods-induced immune system collapse will follow a 21st century Silk Road out of the USA and spread across the modern industrialized Western democracies first, and then to the developing economies , and I wonder if we’ll be as ignorant as our medieval ancestors were ignorant about the cause of their black plague 🤔🤔🤔