Home Sweet Global Monopoly

Starbucks make us feel ill. With their carfully chosen subtle (but not too bland) colour scheme.

They try to suggest some kind of ethnic liberal charm.
Even the background music has been Starbucked, watered down instrumental versions of Hendrix for example, after all we wouldn't want to offend.
The quirky living room sofa's and tables which are not so quirky when you realise they are identical to the other thousand of stores.
And those thousands of stores, like a plague infesting our highstreets, a McDonalds for the new media generation. virtually every street corner will soon contain that incipid nippleless mermaid.

Their attempts at portraying a modern arty cafe culture, with left leanings are just a caked on makeup, for the neo liberal global capitalist thug that they are. Destroying land with their farming methods and lives with their wages to farmers and workers alike. Most of all we dislike their vermin like spread, subsidising new stores in order to out price and close down local rivals, before turning entire towns and cities that horrid green. Blanding out any local culture or diversity and helping every high street look the same worldwide.

Yes, but which one amongst you can make a decent cappucino?

The fact of the matter is, people like good coffee, and the british suck at making coffee. When they go into a cofee joint, they ask for "coffee". Amongst europeans, they are the most ignorant eaters.

Anyone living here knows this. You go into a traditional english "caf" and what you are given when you ask for coffee (and that is your *only choice*) is a filthy mug filled with hot dishwater and a weak solution made from Kenco granules, topped off with some sour milk. Oh, and did I mention that the place itself is dirty from top to bottom and corner to corner?

And then they drink it.

The more "sophisticated" places that have that miracle of science, the Gaggia, are almost always operated by an ignoramus that thinks that coffee is something you get in a dirty cup in a caf. She burns the milk, and presents you with something even more revolting than dishwater, because it is a thing pretending to be a thing; an imitation.

The fact of the matter is, Starbucks, Coffee Republic and Cafe Nero are clean places with comfortable chairs, where you can get a reliable and consistent cup of coffee. No where else in Britain can do this, unless you find a small specialist chain like Maison Blank or some other very small place that is run by either a French or Italian person, even then, its a gamble.

What do we notice about these coffee chains? Firstly, there are many of them. On every streetcorner, sometimes three to a street. That this is disturbing is unquestionable. People love their streets, and hate to see them vandalized by bland chains.

The other thing that we see is that they are always full of people drinking coffee and eating cakes, smoking fags and sitting around reading free newspapers. This coffee house culture, which is a simulation and direct descendent of places like Marge in Montreal, is something that is old and which works. The coffee chains have simply standardised it and imported it.

The normal argument that is insertedhere, is that if people didnt want these places, they would not be spreading so wildly. I would say something else. People do not know what they want. If you give them something nice, they will eat it, sit in it and drink it. It can be you that provides it, or someone else.

Pulling stunts in front of these shops does nothing, except satisfy the performers. No one is fed. No suffereing workers are paid extra money. No land is spared.

The coffee trade is notorius for its bad practices, and for years there have been ethical companies trading coffee fairly with growers all over the world. These are the people who are doing something real. Clearly, there is a place for an ethical coffee house. But should there be just one, or should there be one in every high street, so that the ethical coffee house owners can exert more influence on coffee drinkers and bean buyers?

If you were to try and furninsh hundreds of new, ethical coffee houses, would you buy your furniture one piece at a time, or would you cut a deal with a sofa maker to furnish them all cheaply whilst maintaining the quality of the furninshings? You could say that each one could be made as a work of art, individually designed, furnished and decorated, so that your shops dont visually pollute the streets they sit in.

Ok, do it.

At the end of the day, people are now exposed to and hooked on coffee that IS COFFEE (compared to the dishwater that they used to think was coffee). They will not go back to that dishwater served in filthy grease holes. If you want to do something about coffee chains, something REAL, then the standard that you have to beat has been set. The gauntlet has been laid down. Put up or shut up.

OR, concentrate on making cool flash games and submitting them to Newgrounds.com and stop wasting bits on this pointless self satisfying stunt performing. Join a circus. Open a coffee bar. Whatever you do...

BE REAL.

It has to be said, that Situationist propaganda, is totally useful high art of the most noble kind. That sign, "this way to escape", is priceless, pregnant with true meaning and a boon to "society". If these people do this, and the other lame shit, they can be totally forgiven, and contrary to the psycholgy of Accounting whcih has permeated everything, the two actions are not two sides of an equation cancelling each other out, the result being zero. The one is outside of the spectacle, and therefore does not have a spectacular value. Its value is infinite and zero simultaneously because it is REAL.

Apple Macintosh:

Hypnotically encased iMacs trick unsuspecting computer users into accepting Darwinism

However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don't advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.

But is this really such a shock? Lets look for a moment at Apple Computers. Founded by long haired hippies, this company has consistently supported 60's counter-cultural "values". But there are even darker undertones to this company than most are aware of. Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple² by the serpent. It is now Apple Computers offering us temptation, thereby aligning themselves with the forces of darkness³.

This company is well known for its cult-like following. It isn't much of a stretch to say that it is a cult. Consider co-founder and leader Steve Jobs' constant exhortation through advertising (i.e. mind control) that its followers should "think different". We have to ask ourselves: "think different than whom or what?" The disturbing answer is that they want us to think different than our Christian upbringing, to reject all the values that we have been taught and to heed not the message of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Given the now obvious anti-Christian and cultish nature of Apple Computers, is it any wonder that they have decided to base their newest operating system on Darwinism? This just reaffirms the position that Darwinism is an inherently anti-Christian philosophy spread through propaganda and subliminal trickery, not a science as its brainwashed followers would have us believe.

A Satanic, unevolvable chimera compells you to submit to Darwinism!

ADDENDUM: It has been brought to my attention that the Darwin OS mentioned above now has a cartoon mascot (no doubt to influence children) named Hexley (pictured above) -- a platypus dressed as a devil who performs occult magic, i.e. hexes. They're not doing a very good job keeping their ties to the forces of darkness a secret, are they?

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