So there’s another meme out there on the internet which is set to outrage the world.
It shows a number of popular Starbucks products and what scary ingredient each one of them has in order to shock and awe you that they dare to put propylene glycol in their apple fritters, for instance.
It’s also worth noting that a quick Wikipedia search will uncover that most if not all the scary ingredients on this meme are also found in pretty much every single other food that you buy in a grocery store (including the produce aisle). This same Wikipedia adventure will uncover that most of the ingredients listed in this meme are actually natural, or derived from natural sources and therefore, harmless.
Once upon a time, there was a great debate triggered when Starbucks decided to use a species of crushed beetles to continue to be able to color their strawberry frappuccinos pink and red, as if that was more disgusting than red dye #2, but this article isn’t about defending Starbucks. It is about that idiot who thinks that busting up a Starbucks at the G-20 summit is a more effective act of rebellion than busting up a window at city hall.
This is about the moron who cannot do enough historical research to realize that “evil corporations” are only evil because they are created by government to act as such via legal mandates to prioritize profits and shareholders over stakeholders and end consumers.
This is about the fool who can’t realize that capitalism was created as the most vibrant revolutionary idea designed to destroy and make the imperialist form extinct, that the reason why we live under economic imperialism today is because it is just that, and not capitalism at all.
It is about time when we call certain systems of government and society according to the ideologies and theories which they most closely resemble.
Instead of following the majority, whether that be intellectual, philosophical, political, or otherwise and continuing to be intellectually dishonest as a consequence we could try and actually push certain dead-end discourses in fresh new directions of progress.
Or we could at least throw stones at windows which actually deserve to be broken.
Much love,
Zen Politics
“The Wrong Target” – Published September 22, 2013
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