http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/08/26/hysteria-great-now-whole-foods-is-making-you-broke-and-fat/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/08/26/hysteria-great-now-whole-foods-is-making-you-broke-and-fat/comment-page-1/#comment-290587 Jackie Danicki » You could make it up, but why bother? Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:15:39 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/08/26/hysteria-great-now-whole-foods-is-making-you-broke-and-fat/#comment-290587 [...] I’m sure someone much smarter than I am has written about this, but I have to wonder whether the extreme prosperity of western society is to blame for the huge number of effing ridiculous efforts to legislate the social and the personal. California is a wonderful place to live, if you can ignore the strong nanny-ish streak that makes certain people raise the alarm about the danger of salad (and boy do I try). I think living in the UK was good preparation for this place. As Jeff Nolan asks: [A]re these the real priorities we should be setting as a society… salad bars and cars that don’t make enough noise? [...] [...] I’m sure someone much smarter than I am has written about this, but I have to wonder whether the extreme prosperity of western society is to blame for the huge number of effing ridiculous efforts to legislate the social and the personal. California is a wonderful place to live, if you can ignore the strong nanny-ish streak that makes certain people raise the alarm about the danger of salad (and boy do I try). I think living in the UK was good preparation for this place. As Jeff Nolan asks: [A]re these the real priorities we should be setting as a society… salad bars and cars that don’t make enough noise? [...]

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