Straws are a distraction - Boingboing. Tells how the plastics industry shifts the blame on you the user. It’s not that the user is blameless, but we simply must decrease the production of single use plastics.
”40 years of Reaganomic sociopathy has managed to convince hundreds of millions of otherwise sensible people that big, social problems are caused by their personal choices, and not (say) by rapacious corporations that corrupt the regulatory process.
I will be quoting this in a future people first newsletter ... fits right into my language thesis of how ‘we the people’ continually adopt corporate language without thinking ... ending up with actions detrimental to themselves.
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