I warned all of you what would happen if you allow children to operate unlicensed lemonade stands. But, no, you were too concerned with watching “Dancing With the Stars” on TV to worry about more important matters. Then came news reports of school-children chewing their breakfast tarts in such a way as to resemble a gun. Again, no interest on your part in confronting this issue. Now, all hell is breaking loose. After Michelle Obama and other people-pushers succeeded in getting the government school systems to not serve seasoned foods to kids in school cafeterias, many of the youngsters are taking to throwing such food away. Of greater interest is the emergence of “black markets,” in which children trade with one another to get salt, sugar, pepper, and other spices with which to give their food favorable tastes.
Don’t you see where all of this is leading? Bland and tasteless food is an essential ingredient for the creation of bland and tasteless people prepared to take their assigned positions in an institutionally-directed bland and tasteless world. Didn’t George Orwell warn of this in that passage in 1984, where the state-run cafeteria served “tinny stew” to its conscripted collective?
To allow people – particularly impressionable children – to enjoy the diversity and spiciness that appeals to individual tastes, would be to foster anarchy, rather than coerced uniformity. To hell with banning the Confederate flag: shut down the spice sections of grocery stores before it’s too late!
8:18 pm on June 25, 2015
