After a long and distinguished career in journalism, Terence Corcoran moved to the National Post to become editor of the Financial Post, where he seeks to bring "a free-market perspective to Canadian Economic and Business affairs."
It must have been a really valid perspective for my grandparents when they were young. The article was called "how to farm in a police state," and the premise is that the CBC was tacitly endorsing Fidel Castro's iron-fistedness by lauding Cuba's sustainable agricultural practices.
He attacked David Suzuki for calling the Cuban food supply system "the largest program of organic and sustainable agricaulture ever undertaken." Because, after all, we know (thank you Terrence) that Cuba's food supply is actually "messed up" and primitive, on par with what Canadians deplorably went through "circa 1870." Y'know, because the use of oxen is just obscene. Look at how it's spelled, for christ's sake. O-x? Even sounds obscene.
Terrence said that Cuban farmers aren't dumb, though. If they had the choice to use tractors, they wouldn't look dumb either, because they'd obviously choose tractors and everything would be fine. Just like it is here. It's almost like he's thinking in holistic terms. Tractors = democracy. Ox = police state. Democracy + police state = oxen tractors. What was Suzuki saying about the earth or something?
Smart, that guy, replacing the context of Suzuki's piece - "nature" - with "free market economics." Great for a FP piece. A context that makes "labour-intensive" and "ineffecient" synonyms by considering cost per hour of labour, not cost to your kids' nutrition. That's a net savings of like, billions. Of dollars. For somebody, anyway.
Nevermind that, thank god I don't live in Cuba. Just imagine, those poor, enslaved Cubans having to play in the dirt with animals all day. Shame, they never get to play with computers in beautifully hypersanitized offices with sweet, sterile air. Where do you work, Terrence?
Anyway, who the hell am I to criticze? I'm only 24. I've got lots of living to do, first. That what my grandparents say. But I'll figure it out someday.
It must have been a really valid perspective for my grandparents when they were young. The article was called "how to farm in a police state," and the premise is that the CBC was tacitly endorsing Fidel Castro's iron-fistedness by lauding Cuba's sustainable agricultural practices.
He attacked David Suzuki for calling the Cuban food supply system "the largest program of organic and sustainable agricaulture ever undertaken." Because, after all, we know (thank you Terrence) that Cuba's food supply is actually "messed up" and primitive, on par with what Canadians deplorably went through "circa 1870." Y'know, because the use of oxen is just obscene. Look at how it's spelled, for christ's sake. O-x? Even sounds obscene.
Terrence said that Cuban farmers aren't dumb, though. If they had the choice to use tractors, they wouldn't look dumb either, because they'd obviously choose tractors and everything would be fine. Just like it is here. It's almost like he's thinking in holistic terms. Tractors = democracy. Ox = police state. Democracy + police state = oxen tractors. What was Suzuki saying about the earth or something?
Smart, that guy, replacing the context of Suzuki's piece - "nature" - with "free market economics." Great for a FP piece. A context that makes "labour-intensive" and "ineffecient" synonyms by considering cost per hour of labour, not cost to your kids' nutrition. That's a net savings of like, billions. Of dollars. For somebody, anyway.
Nevermind that, thank god I don't live in Cuba. Just imagine, those poor, enslaved Cubans having to play in the dirt with animals all day. Shame, they never get to play with computers in beautifully hypersanitized offices with sweet, sterile air. Where do you work, Terrence?
Anyway, who the hell am I to criticze? I'm only 24. I've got lots of living to do, first. That what my grandparents say. But I'll figure it out someday.
3 Comments:
maybe if you spent a little less time thinking about agriculture in 3rd world despot nations you would be able to realize that right here....right now, there is a someone. A someone who loves you. Who needs you and wants you. Open your goddamn eyes!!!
hey, i'm not audienceless after all. you and your sneaking in through the back door...
why is it i have to enter through the back door anyways? why won't you let me come in?
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