RE: Childhood indoctrination
June 3, 2013 at 3:50 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2013 at 3:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, they may, but no, I'm talking about garden variety vegetables on your plate having a great deal of influence over you, whether you conceptualize it this way or not. It's useful to note that in your response one can see the jingling of the assumption that some sort of sentience is required to exert influence - to have power, in thinking of an example where something has power over you - you chose a lion. Corn has more power over you than a any lion has ever leveraged over any hominid - even if you've never seen a single ear of it.
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