Monday, May 16, 2022

Latest Great Reset fantasy: Ban food photography!

 

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Last week, German Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) made a typical political mistake: Rules for thee but not for me. In order to reduce the "energy consumption" of advancing digitalisation, Wissing seriously recommended that Germans refrain from frequently posting photos of food on the internet. Then his Instagram posts surfaced.

Unsurprisingly, the downright moronic recommendation promptly turned into an own goal, and Wissing’s plan was met with scorn and ridicule. In the meantime, the minister has had to row back.

The minister of digitalisation’s new idea, which is entirely in the spirit of Agenda 2030 or the Great Reset, was proposed at a G7 meeting, which was about “reducing the ecological footprint in digitalisation”.

In order to reduce the ecological footprint in digitalisation, the G7 countries should pay more attention to aspects of sustainability in the future. “We must not repeat the mistake we made in industrialisation of putting sustainability on the back burner,” said Federal Digital Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) at the end of a meeting of G7 ministers in Düsseldorf last week. Instead, he said, issues such as recycling hardware, protecting raw materials or reducing energy consumption must be considered.

The net phenomenon known as “food porn” – the staging of visually attractive meals and then sharing them with one’s own net community – has repeatedly provoked academic and journalistic interest and led to the elaboration of depth-psychological explanatory approaches.

However, no one has yet come up with the bizarre idea of linking this fad with energy waste.  (more...)

Latest Great Reset fantasy: Ban food photography!



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