> "How about the rest of life itself? language, cultures, arts, shared values, shared concerns, common intellectual experience." Unfortunately, one can't eat a

> "How about the rest of life itself? language, cultures, arts, shared values, shared concerns, common intellectual experience." Unfortunately, one can't eat any of the things you listed nor keep rain off one's head with them. The things you list were always reserved for those with enough income or wealth to have the leisure to contemplate them, not the commonfolk scrabbling to survive.