Well, youāre reading this on a forum where the advertising is right at the top, for MX5Parts, and the censorship gets applied when politics or religion becomes an active part of a discussion.
Complaints ?
I havenāt actually read that particular book by Noam Chomsky, although Iāve long been aware of the general thrust of his views. [ Some of his ideas can be seen in the rise of direct action, for example, Extinction Rebellion ] One book I read long ago, as a student in the early '70ās, is āThe Hidden Persuadersā by Vance Packard, which addresses consumerism, and the multiplicity of ways that advertisers go about their business of what can loosely be described as emotional manipulation.
You may also be interested in the work of Michael Pollan who has written variously about the food we eat. His books, for example, In Defense of Foodā¦, also Food Rules: An Eaters Manifesto . In general, what he is talking about is the industrialisation of food, the rise of nutritionism as a mask for the ultra-processing of food, which leads you to become more questioning about what you buy, and what you eat. His advice approximates to āā¦ eat only what your grandmother would recognise as foodā¦ā. Alsoā¦ in order of preferenceā¦, food that started out with no legs. If not, then 2 legs. Finally, 4 legs.
In my case, as I survey supermarket shelves, rather a lot on display would barely qualify as food. As Iāve got older, more and more I eat, every day, proper fruit and vegetables, fish, chicken. I seldom eat red meat these days, but would happily eat, for example, liver and onions that my family ate when I was a kid. Cheap, tasty, and healthy. And very unfashionable.
You mentioned your enthusiasm for Max Blumenthal in an earlier post about Ch4. Heās an investigative journalist. There is a difference between mainstream news reporting, and investigative journalism, and itās not necessarily because mainstream news is somehow automatically corrupt and unclean, or that an investigative journalist is some kind of god of truth. Blumenthal rather missed that in a recent tweet complaining that no one had properly investigated how many people had died in the rocket strike on a theatre in Mariupol. Iād call it the āfog of warā.
It should have been called Dune Part 1!
