Myers Reading

I did not like the Myers Article.

 In my opinion the tone was very rude, and "over-the top". His harsh criticism of the way in which some people choose to approach food, was very single-minded. He went solely off of stereotypes, and his outrage at this group is baseless.  He examines only the extremes of the “foodies” and doesn’t take in to fact this this community (if it even exist) would be made of a spectrum of people, and not all of them would be the pretentious snobs that he describes. When an author chooses only to focus in on way small group of people while examining a larger group of people, they send out the wrong which would be a misrepresentation of the larger group.

I would consider a “foodie” anyone who is passionate about food. Whether that is creating new meals in their apartment kitchen, or taking their private jet to try the latest Parisian cheese.  How is their passion so much more disturbing than some football fanatic dishing out hundreds of dollars for a plane ticket and admission ticket to attend the super bowl? It’s not; people are willing to spend money on the things they like so I find Myers’s argument (even though I really wouldn’t consider this an argument, its just 7 pages of him bashing “foodies”) complete garbage.

If Myers had instead, focused on how extensive spending was a waste in the schemes of things his argument might have been more valid.  If he wrote about how this money could have been used to support hunger-ending campaigns or things of that nature,  I would have been more likely to understand why he was writing what he wrote. In his last sentence Myers writes that “foodies” are  “certainly single-minded…& single-mindedness…is always a littleness of soul.”

In his last sentence Myers writes that “foodies” are “certainly single-minded…& single-mindedness…is always a littleness of soul.” So if this statement was true then that would mean because of the biasedness and single-mindedness presence in his article, Myers has less of a soul then the average person.