#JohnLanchester makes in #TheNewYorker a rarely, almost incoceivably perceptive observation for a foodie: “If shopping and cooking really are the most
consequential, most political acts in my life, perhaps what that means is that
our sense of the political has shrunk too far—shrunk so much that it fits into
our recycled-hemp shopping bags. If these tiny acts of consumer choice are the
most meaningful actions in our lives, perhaps we aren’t thinking and acting on
a sufficiently big scale. Imagine that you die and go to Heaven and stand in
front of a jury made up of Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther
King, Jr. Your task would be to compose yourself, look them in the eye, and
say, 'I was all about fresh, local, and seasonal.'”
Not a happy thought – and it shoudn’t be. But what else is left for a humanitarian #intellectual, really?
