I buy my organic whole milk at 7-eleven!

That little compact sentence (that almost wrote itself during a very long email conversation I had a few days ago) effectively hints about several core principles of mine:

I buy...

I rarely bargain or compare prices much - I simply buy the stuff. Obviously this only works when in fact I can afford it, but I will not allow myself getting tied to money to a degree that I will moarn spending them. And by "afford it" I mean here and now - I avoid measuring past and future expenses.

I don't want to get trapped by the "money saved is money earned" logic. To me money is (bad) exchange tokens of value, not a value in itself, and not some collection I am building up.

...my organic...

Organic to me is not primarily about specific products being healthier. I want to make en effort for a better ecosystem worldwide, and the most effective way I see is by "giving my vote" whenever possible in that ongoing election called "supply and demand". Even if it turned out that the farmers are cheating and put same eggs in different boxes, I'd still buy the ones promoted as organic! Sure it is a great bonus that it tastes better and I may live longer and stronger by doing it :-)

...whole milk...

I am not on a diet - I look as I was meant to. I prefer things pure and unpolished - milk too.

This also relates to how I believe that body and soul are closely tied: If anybody was meant to develop R.S.I. I sure would be the one. But I just enjoy so much using computers that it doesn't happen. I don't think having a positive mindset cures diseases, but that it helps - and even if not then I loose nothing by being stupidly happy!

...at 7-eleven!

I stopped wearing a watch more than ten years ago, and dropped the calender some years later. I consider it freedom to not be tied by time. And when I realize at 4am that I am hungry it is great being able to go get something to eat.

I like living in a city. It never really sleeps. But the mood changes - and I like it at night time when the city slows down. Kind of like having a child on your chest and it falls asleep - and a thick sense of comfort floats massively towards you. A whole city sleeping around me brings me in a good mood.

And what about 7-eleven as the symbol of the evil capitalism? Well, it really is just a symbol. When given the choice I much prefer the small pakistani shops with their funny atmosphere and random selection. It just happens that there are no pakistani shops open at 4am close to where I live.

7-eleven did not produce capitalism, just as Bill Gates did not invent the "lemming syndrome" where everybody have bad experiences with their computer systems but nevertheless continues to buy same shit instead of demanding alternatives. WE are the society and choose to move the world in the direction it is taking. If going for a different world it is - to say it mildly - ineffective to do so by yelling at 7-eleven, Bill Gates, Coca Cola and MacDonald's. It is less important to "avoid 7-eleven" than what I do in exchange: I take a bus to Nørrebro (another more central part of Copenhagen) for my one liter of milk (or that is exactly what I do not!), because I woek and sleep and never get to buy at a larger scale during daytime when the politically correct shops are open.

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7-11 er ikke noget der tales højt om. Det er pinligt at handle der. Among most of those I socialize with it is embarrassing to shop at 7-eleven. You don't talk about it if doing so. I mean to obstruct that. Not to increase sales for the 7-eleven chain, but to help provoke a more constructive awareness:

Are you one of those reacting strongly at the sentence, I'd really like to hear more about what you do and not what you oppose!