And guess which chapter this one is …
The food chapter? You guessed right, you clever person!
Here’s the opening of that chapter:
“Food is the first thing, morals follow on.”*
— Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny OperaIn Brecht’s world of thieves, whores, and orphans, morality may have been a luxury only to be considered on a full belly, but moral questions in twenty-first-century America start well before you get to the table. Chicken or tofu? Grass-fed or corn-fed? Kosher or trayf? Imported organic or pesticide-sprayed local? And is “free-range” just another word for nothing left to lose?
*Another popular translation from the original German, “First you must feed us, then we’ll all behave,” strongly suggests that the translator never hosted a children’s birthday party.
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I see “rules eat people”.
hehehe.
“Rules eat people like much food,” even.
I like that it is shaped like a fish (a kind of food).
I rather like the “Rules Eat People.” Maybe the rules eat Soylent Green, which is, as we all well know, people.
Mmm. Hungry now.
I must go find the book. I am sure it will be ever so much more helpful than the 1920s etiquette book I currently own.