FRIED POTATOES: On the politics of indifference

	You want fried potatoes?
	I tell you we're all deep-fried
	cause the people in control
	don't give a damn fer
	U err me.

	All they want is
	their hamburgers delivered on time
	with the right amount ah lettuce
	'n buns neatly sliced.

	Who cares if
	ketchup spills on kitchen floors
	or employees work at sub-standard wages?

	Does anyone worry whether
	the bovine crap has weird hormones
	or napkins are from rainforests
	or tomatoes argh genetically spliced?

	You want Order #6, right?
	OK bud - cumin' right appu!


Kris: 	Massive indifference: isn't that the root of most problems?

Tim: 	Indeed. Capitalism institutionalizes the process of uncaring. When people are 
        viewed as disposable commodities, society as a whole becomes hollow. We need an 
        arching meta-narrative to peacefully unite disparate and selfish humans.

Sam: 	(Impatiently) Yeah. Yeah. I've heard that crap before. When's the next cartoon?


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A poem and dialogue about the commodification of human values.
KEYWORDS:  systematic apathy, institutionalized uncaring, people-as-commodities, affluenza

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1997 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2019 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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