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Jan. 31st, 2004 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfBecause you're seriously oppressed by IKEA and Starbucks.
Shoots down the arguments from what he calls the "self-consciously leftie male between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two desperate to prove his authenticity, present his down-with-the-people, fuck-the-Man bona fides."
It's not a perfect article, by any means, and I think Starbucks drip is the second worst thing I've ever drank (the first being that godawful coffee-and-alcohol mixed drink at 820 last night), but he does have a point about lashing out at the most visible signs of corporatization, and not at the ones that one actually should be protesting against.
I think the real reason they anger so many people is the dull uniformity they impose on every high street and every city. The fuckers are everywhere. They're there and they're easy but they're not good.
Shoots down the arguments from what he calls the "self-consciously leftie male between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two desperate to prove his authenticity, present his down-with-the-people, fuck-the-Man bona fides."
It's not a perfect article, by any means, and I think Starbucks drip is the second worst thing I've ever drank (the first being that godawful coffee-and-alcohol mixed drink at 820 last night), but he does have a point about lashing out at the most visible signs of corporatization, and not at the ones that one actually should be protesting against.
I think the real reason they anger so many people is the dull uniformity they impose on every high street and every city. The fuckers are everywhere. They're there and they're easy but they're not good.
