I said this: Shannon, Things are changing. People are declining paper bags, asking about where this or that particular item was made, and other such, much more than they used to. Part of this is owing to them being better informed; part of this is owing to their desire to help out; and part of this is owing to their desire to "shape" themselves so they seem less worthy of punishment from a culture that seems extremely impatient for the "privileged," "sexist," consumerist," "glutonous" (etc.), clearly bad lot to get familiar with the real Hurt. I also said this: I very much do agree that if Canadians don't want there to be a depression, there won't be one (wonderful insight, by the way). Accepting this thesis as true of course demands assessing human beings in a different way than as simply homo economicus, that is, as beings who are ruled primarily by a desire to make a buck. It would demand accepting that human beings can...