<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cartesian Shopping</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When all of our home spun philosophies<br>Focus on shopping and spending and such<br>Then its time to redress priorities<br>For those things don't mean very much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's hard to imagine Pythagoras<br>Out shopping with Plato and Kant<br>Debating the appeal of the packaging<br>Of something they really don't want.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I know we all shop 'cos we have to eat<br>And we're keen on good prices it seems<br>But all of these retailing strategies <br>Seem to be trying too hard for our dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I turned to another philosopher<br>To understand what is going on<br>His words have a truth that now resonates<br>Like 'I shop and therefore I am'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well that's not precisely the words he said<br>He was a Frenchman and had to obscure<br>The truth that we now have to contemplate<br>When Wal Mart we have to endure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, Rene Descartes was a genius<br>He had matters under his thumb<br>When asked to go shopping he'd decline<br>Just saying 'cogito ergo sum'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Keig">David Keig</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364232" data-title="Cartesian Shopping de David Keig" data-description="When all of our home spun philosophies Focus on shopping and spending and such Then its time to redress priorities For those things don't mean very much. It's hard to imagine Pythagoras Out shopping with Plato and Kant Debating the appeal of the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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