While enjoying our almost-traditional Sunday breakfast at the great KOSMO deli in A2's Kerrytown (Bibim Bop and Kim Bop), a loud walluping hammering emanated from the fish deli across the main walkway. Loud enough to make anyone in the indoor open foodmarket area turn and wonder what poor object angered someone so much to merit that kind of a beating. I deduced to Joyous that the guy must be tenderizing some meat or fish. Interesting and kind of funny, we agreed, that in order to tenderize something, you have to be so brutal with it.
At that moment I remembered the documentary that Joyous rented this weekend, 'Girlhood', a powerful documentary that follows two teen girls in the juvie system over three years. Both of them in for very violent crimes. Leaving the house, the last scene we watched before cutting the DVD player, was with one of the juvie counselors being especially tough and intense with one of the girls, trying to get through to her so she'd soften up and consider more deeply her life's paths and decisions.
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Quite The Thought, sent from a buddy currently in UCLA's MBA program:
"Three decades ago sociologist Daniel Bell postulated the ``cultural contradictions of capitalism.'' He meant that capitalism, by its success, subverts its cultural prerequisites. At first, capitalism depended on a Protestant asceticism -- thrift, deferral of gratification, industriousness. But capitalism produces wealth, and a shift from production to consumption -- the marketing of hedonism -- as the economy's motor. The banishment of asceticism by acquisitiveness means the systematic inflammation of appetites and the undermining of stern capitalist virtues. "
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