Edwardian Supersize Me - Part 4

The one off show aired originally on the 16th April 2007 on BBC Four that led to series 'The Supersizers Go/Eat'

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[thankyou12334]

love love love this show so very very interesting and amazing on the eating and social habits of the edwardian era

[rrlg1]

Love this - thanks for uploading

[tiershadarling14]

@donnad9999 as much as what you say is true, you are aware that they have to act this way for television aren't you?

To watch a programme where they were served lavish meals and enjoyed every mouthful wouldn't be perceived as entertainment.

Also she's a comedienne and he is a food critic; not only do they both 'play a role' in their day jobs, but they also have 'foodie' pallets and there for are going to be more judgemental before they even have to 'act up' to the camera

[donnad9999]

There are so many who would love the opportunity to eat such food and approach it with open mind and glad heart. And would it hurt sue to don period spectacles and brush her bloody hair!

[donnad9999]

With my own love of history I am amazed at how crass these two are. Every meal is started with their saying, 'Oh this is bad, this is horrid, this is foul' despite the fact that someone has spent quite a bit of time. Yet, sue will probably eat a 'vegetarian' molded blob in the micro made of GMO grains and floor scrapings and a bit of salt and declare it wonderful. I don't know why I keep watching hoping it to be better.

[ZimmermanHound]

@Stargazer88 I agree that libertarianism can be one solution. The problem is that we do not have a real market - it is all fake and set up to benefit the richest 0,5-1 percent. Personally Im a paleo-libertarian, a Ron Paul fan. Liberalism was created in a communitarian context and I think it should return to that (that is why I call myself "paleo") When I was an undergraduate student in sociology my professor said that Marxism has won - "we all own" he said. That is bull.

[ZimmermanHound]

@Stargazer88 I kind of not "romanticizing" over the past. As you said: We have always been fucked my the elite but in my view this is much worse then before. According to Hans Herman Hoppe - In the old days, the country was property and the king own the country and indirect the people. Today people can be replaced and that is what is taking place, a replacement of people. They are turned into materials in a more extreme sense then in the 1800s when Marx wrote his thesis.

[Stargazer88]

@ZimmermanHound The best thing is to give this elite as small as possible opportunity to affect our lives. Cripple them and base a society on as much individual freedom as possible. When each and everyone of us have to take care of our selves and our own, and the economic incentives to do the right thing is there, people will normally manage to behave themselves. Apart from the ones that never behave anyway.

[Stargazer88]

@ZimmermanHound There might be ebb and flow, but the general value of "immoral" behavior is quite constant over time. IMO as far as the elite goes, they have always been something to loath. As long as you have a system where those that want power can grab it, the elite will always fuck the rest of us in the ass. Pardon my French.

[Stargazer88]

@ZimmermanHound a can agree with you on some of these points (fractional reserve banking is quite possibly one of the most evil inventions in human history). The value of the ethical values that you mention are on the other hand rather low. The "moral downturn" that so many are screaming about, is a illusion brought about by romanticizing of history. Corruption, evil and general corrosive elements have always been a part of society, now and since civilization began.

[ZimmermanHound]

@Stargazer88 I have actually never read history at the university but I do have one semester in religious history. My double BA is in Sociology and Political science and my (soon to be finished) MA is in political science. The western problems seem to be pretty generic - (normative) multiculturalism, economical and human globalization, a failing bankingsystem (through fractional reserve banking) and loss of religious, ethnic and cultural values etc.