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Michael Pollan's excellent Omnivore's Dilemma, ISBN-13 978-1594200823, features an anecdote about the Mayans early on in the first chapter. The Maya word that referred to themselves and their civilization was "corn walker," and often you hear Chicanos and other Mexican indigenous peoples using that term on themselves even today. But Pollan points
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That's the problem with intelligent fringe liberals.
They may have good points, but they're too pussified to actually make a stand on them, or care about any sort of reprecussions other than those that affect issues close to their heart.
Should I stop eating corn, and more rice?
Should I write to my congressman about how cow farts need to contain more nitrogen and he needs to deal with this important issue immediately before we all starve to death and our atmosphere disappears?
What the fuck. Should I write up signs on how we're all going to eventually die and we won't be able to have our can a week of blue diamond almonds so obviously the answer is we need to plant soy beans beneath our nipples so we can safely and heroically breastfeed off of one another when the corn will inevitably run out?
If you really believe in what you preach, become a mass murderer. That will actually improve things.
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