"I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street."
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"What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display for the sake of consumption."
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