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Yes, It’s All Woke

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What’s confusing? All three listed things are about erasing tradition. That’s what they have in common. Woke means far-left. And far-left has been singing a variation on the Internationale since 1870s:

Let’s make a clean slate of the past,
Enslaved mass, arise, arise!
The world’s foundation will change,
We are nothing, now let’s be all!

Change everything! Make the world a better place! Down with the old! In with the new!

That’s what it’s about. Destroying everything familiar, inherited, known, and traditional.

16 responses to “Yes, It’s All Woke”

  1. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Off-topic:

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  2. oldcowboy3 Avatar
    oldcowboy3

    LOL, yes, yes, and “What can be unburdened by what has been” ;-D

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    Anonymous

    I can’t believe how everybody on both sides of this issue is making such a big deal out of Cracker Barrel’s branding changes! I’ve eaten periodically at local Cracker Barrel restaurants for decades for exactly ONE reason: I like their unchanging standard Deep South menu choices that very few restaurants outside the geographic Deep South states serve.

    Who the hell cares what their “atmosphere” or “ambience” is, as long as the food is good?

    Dreidel

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    1. Stringer Bell Avatar
      Stringer Bell

      Who the hell cares what their “atmosphere” or “ambience” is, as long as the food is good?

      I’m not even going to repeat the points Clarissa’s made about GloboHomo (that’s homogenization, btw lol). Instead, let’s just focus on this sentence. What we perceive as taste and flavor is not a fixed, objective measure. The same wine tastes better from a Riedel glass than from a paper cup. The same wine tastes better when you’re told it’s a $200 bottle of wine than when you’re told it’s $20. The same food tastes better off a porcelain plate with proper cutlery vs a disposable plate and plastic forks and knives. This is why the food at cracker barrel can’t be separated from its traditional decor and the memories people associate with eating there. The dining experience contributes to the flavor!

      This is also why blind taste tests are useless gotchas. I don’t care if I can’t make out the difference between pepsi and coke or red wine vs white wine in a blind taste test. The knowledge of what I’m having is a non-trivial component of how I’ll feel after drinking it.

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        The entirety of human culture is the elevation of non-material aspects of being over the material ones.

        I was inspired by this great comment to write a separate post about this.

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      2. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        “The same wine tastes better from a Riedel glass than from a paper cup”

        Absolutely. There’s a Labyrinth under Buda Castle (Budapest) turned into a museum/art exhibition with elements of Hungarian history.

        One of the features is a fountain with red wine.

        Cupping your hands (or using any drinking vessel you might have with you) is a fun experience and the wine tastes very nice. If, as some people (including me) have done, you fill part of an empty plastic bottle with it… and drink it outside the labyrinth then the wine turns into a nasty watery simulation of wine (it must be magic).

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          Clarissa

          When I hurt my leg last summer and was bedridden for a month, the first thing I did was buy this very beautiful bed cover. Every morning I’d hop around on one foot, making the bed and arranging the bedspread and the little cushions to make everything pretty. I didn’t know how to get better without that. Immaterial aspects win over the material ones in highly organized sensibilities.

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            ShadowsCollide

            I felt the same way after I fractured my pelvis and came back from the hospital, I spent months wearing sweatpants and pajama bottoms with extra large T-shirts and no makeup. I felt gross and unwomanly dressed like a slob for all those months, when I got the all clear I was thrilled to wear dresses and makeup again and feel like a woman.

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    Anonymous

    Your immigration to the U.S. is showing. “Enslaved” and “1870s” bring reconstruction, rather than Marxism, to the minds of people from this country.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Dude, stop trying to claim the suffering of others. It’s distasteful. Can’t you see it? You and yours didn’t experience slavery. Move off this fake outrage.

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  5. ed Avatar
    ed

    The new logo is just ugly. People do like change if it’s for the better or if it improves on the old.

    You no longer use an old rotary phone do you?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      A rotary phone is not an aesthetic object. It’s not an immaterial aspect of life. Unless, of course, it’s part of a room design which is purposefully old-fashioned. Then you’d know that nothing but a rotary phone works for the setup and would seek it out.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        My mother manages props for the local community theater. Telephones make or break any specific-time-period set. I always keep an eye out for them at estate sales– She has a posted bounty for certain models of telephone!

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          My sister had a rotary phone on the wall in her previous house. The house had been built in the 1920s, and STI had much of the design from back then. The rotary phone felt natural in that environment. And it worked. I think it was a great thing for her elder child to experience. The youngest was an infant back then.

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          1. methylethyl Avatar
            methylethyl

            Our current house still has the wall bracket and jack for one of those. Part of me wants to get one, and put it on the wall, because it just *feels right* to have one in the kitchen. Even though we don’t have landline service.

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  6. bluebird of bitterness Avatar
    bluebird of bitterness

    If something isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

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