tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post436911527096638589..comments2023-10-25T17:50:35.550-04:00Comments on Hipsters Are Boring: I'm So Hungry I Could Eat A HorseKaitlyn Kochanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786479100009809264noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post-6319404382173904602009-04-15T21:30:00.000-04:002009-04-15T21:30:00.000-04:00Hey! Cool article! And I like a lot of things that...Hey! Cool article! And I like a lot of things that don't start with P, lol.Reefpiratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12103087287209605514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post-85275246423806536162009-04-10T18:30:00.000-04:002009-04-10T18:30:00.000-04:00That's true. Too many beans = bad news bears.That's true. Too many beans = bad news bears.Kaitlyn Kochanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786479100009809264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post-72922104025982047302009-04-10T15:11:00.000-04:002009-04-10T15:11:00.000-04:00And vegan farts smell like death. You forgot to me...And vegan farts smell like death. You forgot to mention that.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254066849095258451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8699996156051897761.post-45464441959322521482009-04-10T12:34:00.000-04:002009-04-10T12:34:00.000-04:00I think veganism often circulates on a kind of a p...I think veganism often circulates on a kind of a paradox. On the one hand, it is treated as absolute value, and we have to apologize publicly (like a modified catholic confession) for a slip. On the other hand, it is treated as absolutely personal choice, and its considered rude to push one's "vegan" values on others when unsolicited. In this sense veganism is exactly a kind of liberally acceptable fundamentalist religion - private, but absolute. <BR/><BR/>But it is exactly this sense of veganism which seems completely useless politically and rude socially. Rather, if there is any point in veganism, it's not the activity of not-eating meat, but the role that this activity might play in pushing for animal welfare or animal rights. Becoming completely obsessed with what we as individuals independently of how that impacts on the wider social/moral sphere is exactly to fall prey to those tendencies in late capitalism towards individuation, de-politicization, mistrust and ennui of institutions, the destruction of community, etc... <BR/><BR/>Rather than keeping the kitchen out of the living room, I think the movement away from vegan "fundamentalism" means they should eat meat, for the same reasons as: "If someone made me pea soup, however, I would eat it." Only by embracing hypocrisy as the situation we all find ourselves in, and not taking any values as absolute, can we properly de-Christianize ethical choices.Tristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271874658727289301noreply@blogger.com