December 21, 2008
Bummery
If you look forward to getting your meal from a dumpster, you're not some form of environmental nobility.
You're a frigging bum.
You don't get celebrated.
You don't feted.
You're a stinking bum.
Veneration of these guys gets on my nerves.
Environment
Posted by AlexC at December 21, 2008 4:08 PM
It should bug you, ac; you have a righteous cause against the Freegans. I have little problem with those who want to do live that way. It doesn't grab me but I'll call it a valid "lifestyle choice."
Yet I wholeheartedly (hoof hearted?) agree that those who celebrate them as heroes are the people Karl Popper warned would send up back to the caves. We spent thousands of years developing the affluence that the Freegans can take for granted. Rather than innovate and contribute, these urban hyenas will live off the surplus of those who do.
It should bug you, ac; you have a righteous cause against the Freegans. I have little problem with those who want to do live that way. It doesn't grab me but I'll call it a valid "lifestyle choice."
Yet I wholeheartedly (hoof hearted?) agree that those who celebrate them as heroes are the people Karl Popper warned would send up back to the caves. We spent thousands of years developing the affluence that the Freegans can take for granted. Rather than innovate and contribute, these urban hyenas will live off the surplus of those who do.
Posted by: jk at December 22, 2008 11:15 AMI just think the word is funny. freegan
Try and use it in a sentence with a straight face.
"To guard against freegans, Whole Foods put up a fence."
See? You just cannot do it. I laugh everytime I say the word.
~T. Greer, not a freegan. Hehe.
Posted by: T. Greer at December 22, 2008 11:53 AM | What do you think? [2]