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raymor · 12-01-2011, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Caligari

It's funny you cite Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, and Macaroni Grill, because if you "choose" between those you aren't really making a choice at all, you're simply going with the same shit they shove down your throat. It is the idea of corporate homogeny which has largely sucked the uniqueness out of the U.S. where every town you go to has large parts which look exactly the same and offer exactly the same crap.

It's not your choice, it's the choices you are given.

I'm eating a breakfast taco. I drive by give different types of restaurants within a mile of here after leaving the supermarket. So in the last 30 minutes I've seen probably a thousand choices for breakfast. Just in oatmeal alone, I had probably twenty different choices offered by comoanies (corporations) - instant fruit and cream, brown sugar and cinnamon, regular long cook, once minute cook, brand name, generic, organically grown ...

One item I bought at the grocery store was bananas, 33 cents per pound. The bananas got here from central america because a group of people got together pooling their money and formed a corporation to buy the $10 million ship that carries bananas and other fruits here. They bought the ship from another bunch of people who pooled their resources and formed a corporation to build the ships. Another group got together and their corporation built the supermarket that offers all of these choices.

Let's say I want breakfast and there are no corporations to build ships. This area doesn't grow oats or bananas. Our soil grows cotton and watermelon. Cotton isn't tasty, so I guess it would be watermelon for breakfast, every day.