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It’s bread (that is: pan, wheat or similar milled and leavened) but it’s more a euphemism of the author’s own design. To me it was a reference to - something -
by w0de0 5y ago
It’s bread (that is: pan, wheat or similar milled and leavened) but it’s more a euphemism of the author’s own design. To me it was a reference to - something - in the American millennial zeitgeist that congealed just about mid-pandemic when half our social media seemed to be about people making and bragging about bread at home.
- rakoo 5y agoI feel it's that one: all the people were talking about during the first phases of lockdown was how to make the best of this moment, surrounded with all this newfound available time and knowledge a few clicks away. Stories of starting a new hobby, learning a new language, playing an instrument. It was all temporary anyway, so we might as well use that time. But the diversion wore off, as time went on, deaths kept piling off, countries were fighting each other over sharing vaccines and their patents, half the country still believes it's all a hoax... there's only so much bread that will keep you busy while no one outside shows any sign of pondering on our faults as a society and we are just waiting for the old days to come. Who cares about bread anymore. Maybe I'm putting some of myself here, but so many parts of this society look too much like dumb tasks coming again and again with no end in sight, and for what result? Become a prince if you have the good friends/luck/money, or vanish into the void of being forgotten. Stop being diverted by quirky social media phenomenons: fix the system, or leave it to make your own. Abort the fairy tale.