What if…
- for every product you used or consumed, you could somehow know its entire bloody history? Really know it, not just by dint of trusting the print on the box or the information you Google. The maquiladoras which produced your clothing, the factory farm which produced your meal, the animals blinded to perfect your shampoo, the campaign money donated by your neighborhood big box store. I want to live with integrity, but I drift through life blissfully unaware of what everyday items might be tainted. Perhaps we need another Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but print is dead.
- American education is an industry whose intellectually contaminated and socially irresponsible practices must be called out into the public. Perhaps we need another The Jungle, but print is dead.
- we are living in another Dark Ages? Once there was nothing ignorant about being unable to read, or by solving problems by “an eye for an eye.” In our time, such a person is pitied or scorned by the cultural elite. How will ethics evolve in the new millennium? For what will our ancestors pity or scorn us?
