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February 21, 2006
The Postmodern Experience of Air Travel
From a Washington Post article on airline amenities:
"I don't think the airlines need more seats. They need more service that returns some measure of passenger dignity to the postmodern experience of air travel."
Passenger: I'd like a Coke, please.
Flight Attendant: And by "Coke" you mean what, exactly? Assuming that exactitude is feasible in any mode of written or oral communication, a premise that is dubious at best in this fragmented, late-capitalist excuse for a society.
Passenger: I mean Coca-Cola. The soft drink.
Flight Attendant: Oh, so now you want me to embrace a meta-narrative that virtually assures the commodification of our current discourse, with you playing the role of entitled consumer and me assuming the identity of servile provider? You want my locus of control to be external, right?
Passenger: Actually, forget the Coke.
Flight Attendant: We're out of Coke anyway. How about a Sprite?
Passenger: Okay.
Posted by teb at February 21, 2006 10:57 AM