OnlyFans, Corn Flakes & the Taliban

We ignore the undercurrents of culture at our own peril

We see cultural currents, and it’s easy to think these are organic shifts in the way society thinks. We often don’t realize how society is being carefully shaped and manipulated by special interests. Take breakfast, for example.

(Breakfast, you say? I know, bear with me.)

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!” A sentence any mother may be heard saying to her kids. A sentence we may all have repeated at some point. Random? Nah. This was a marketing campaign created by General Foods, manufacturer of Grape Nuts, to sell us more cereal.

So, let’s talk about breakfast cereal.

In the mid-nineteenth century, breakfast would consist of whatever was available. There was no prescribed staple for this meal. Some ate pastries, some ate steak, or boiled chicken. All of this changed when Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will started the Kellogg’s Cereal Company. Dr.John Harvey Kellogg was an interesting character. He worked fifteen-hour days. As a surgeon, he performed over 22,000 procedures in his lifetime — mostly abdominal surgeries. And he had a very low mortality rate. He didn’t ask for compensation for his medical work. Among his patients were Henry Ford…