starbucks ruules

[Chris Stolz]

I *like* starbucks.  You get reliably excellent coffee there.  Better coffee
than at all my local "independent" coffeeshops, who buy beans once a year
from unscrupulous traders over the phone and let them get rancid.  They pay
their employees better than independent places, too.  What I don't like is
all the crap they sell in their stores.
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	Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake.  But this
wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the
torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.  When we
emerge, perhaps we will realise we have been dreaming with our eyes open,
and that the dreams of reason are intolerable.  And then, perhaps, we will
begin to dream once more with our eyes closed.

			-- Octavio Paz, _The Labyrinth of Solitude_