June 06, 2007
Do you want freedom fries with that?
The other day, I went to the bookstore to purchase George Lakoff’s book, “Whose Freedom.” The book is about republican’s warped framing of the word freedom, and how it actually curtails and devalues the idea.
On the cover is the word freedom five times. The top four are scratched out; the bottom one had bold red underlines with a big red question mark. It gets your attention.
I brought the book up to the register and the lady rings it up and says, “Would you like your freedom in a bag.” She caught herself and then said, “I mean book in a bag.” I’m not real quick on the trigger, so my lame, corny response was, “I hope it never gets to that point.”
As I was driving home, the thought came to me that I hadn’t even turned the cover and Lakoff had already made his point. Maybe, I’ll return the book since the clerk had already given me the abbreviated version.
Posted by Captain Kroc at June 6, 2007 12:40 PM
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