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It contrasts hinted solutions with an explicitly stated aim to pressure the United States into feeding the world via coordinated sacrifice. The text challenges the moral framing by invoking Thanksgiving as an American holiday rooted in production, arguing that “hunger” is used to undermine national consciousness and individual initiative, and it questions “altruist economics” such as cutting meat and shifting fertilizer 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is Anthony Lewis’s campaign described as trying to do?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It is described as pushing the United States to assume the burden of feeding the whole world, using suggested sacrifices and messages that explicitly or implicitly frame the purpose behind earlier hints.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does the text relate the argument to Thanksgiving?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It treats Thanksgiving as a typically American celebration tied to production and abundant consumption, arguing that the campaign urges Americans to experience hunger in direct conjunction with that holiday of abundance.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What economic reasoning does the text critique?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It critiques proposals about cutting meat appetite and changing fertilizer policy, arguing these ideas would cause unemployment and bankruptments across the meat and related industries while also affecting food supply outcomes.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},421100,1791184981,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":39,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":34,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":144},962090894170,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_6f874abed73319feea01a86fa6f0fab8","Vol.III,No.23  \nAugust 12,1974  \nCASHING IN ON HUNGER  \nIf you want to observe the mechanics of an ideological campaign,Mr.AnthonyLewis offers a good example.As I indicated in my last Letter,Mr.Lewis startedhis campaign with a trial balloon on the issue of world hunger,in a column whichreported the facts and merely hinted at solutions(The New York Times,October 24,1974).The next step was a column entitled \"Making A Difference\"(Times,Novem-ber 14,1974),which stated explicitly the purpose behind the veiled hints.  \nTo be exact,the column did not state,but screamed its purpose so crudelyand angrily that one suspects that the trial balloon did not go over too well.The purpose was to push,force or wheedle the United States into assuming theburden of feeding the whole world.That purpose is not new:it is a bromide ofaltruism periodically dusted off and touted.But it is instructive to observethe nature of Mr.Lewis's arguments.  \nThe column plugs a plan offered by \"Oxfam-America,an affiliate of the In-ternational Relief Agency\"which \"suggests that Americans go without food for 24hours next Thursday,Nov.21 [i.e.,a week before Thanksgiving]…..The proposalis that money not spent on food next Thursday be sent to Oxfam,\"which would useit\"to help farmers and villagers around the world raise their own food.\"  \nMr.Lewis sees \"a larger significance\"in that idea.\"It is a way for Amer-icans to become aware of what is reality for hundreds of millions of people in theworld.\"Addressing,apparently,the lowest kinds of today's concrete-bound,anti-conceptual mentalities,Mr.Lewis calls this \"an opening to consciousness.\"  (Aconsciousness that needs such an \"opening\"would be a consciousness aware of noth-ing but imediate sensations;if so,it might feel that its belly is empty,butwould not be able to draw any further conclusions:conclusions require concepts.)  \nIn order to make us aware of the reality of a starving world,it is theawareness of the reality of America that Mr.Lewis wants us to lose.Thanksgiv-ing is a typically American holiday.  In spite of its religious form(givingthanks to God for a good harvest),its essential,secular meaning is a celebra-tion of successful production.  It is a producers'holiday.The lavish meal isa symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of produc-tion.Abundance is (or was and ought to be)America's pride -just as it is thepride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.  Thisis the pride which Mr.Lewis,as an altruist,seeks to demolish by urging Ameri-cans to experience hunger in conjunction with the holiday of abundance.  \nTo plead his case,the altruist pulls an astonishing switch,and turns -of  \n必  \nall things -into an individualist.\"A premise of our democracy is that individ-ual action can make a difference -that one man's conscience can change a country.Neither Jefferson nor Thoreau thought Americans should wait for governments totell them what to do.It would be grotesque in the extreme if we abandoned indi-vidual initiative at a time when the world is facing fundamental change and theUnited States Government is so indifferent or so slow in its response.\"  \nNeither Jefferson nor Thoreau (this last in spite of his many faults)thoughtAmericans should defy the government for the sake of becoming free to practiceself-immolation.  The\"right to self-sacrifice\"was not one of the rights thatJefferson listed in the Declaration of Independence and fought for.  It would,indeed,be grotesque in the extreme if we abandoned individual initiative in suchrealms as our thinking,our values,our work,the control of our lives,the en-joyment of our liberty,the pursuit of our happiness -but preserved it in therealm of becoming a sacrificial animal.It is grotesque to advocate such a no-tion at a time when the \"fundamental change\"facing the world is the extinctionof all individual initiative.  But altruists have never been too fastidious aboutthe nature of their arguments.  \nHere is a glimpse ","cbCairPTzfoVCTgs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairPTzfoVCTgs","pdf",2472576,"English","# Vol.III, No.23\n## CASHING IN ON HUNGER\n## Purpose behind the campaign\n## Thanksgiving, abundance, and national pride\n## Individual initiative vs. government\n## Critique of altruist economics","[{\"question\":\"What is Anthony Lewis’s campaign described as trying to do?\",\"answer\":\"It is described as pushing the United States to assume the burden of feeding the whole world, using suggested sacrifices and messages that explicitly or implicitly frame the purpose behind earlier hints.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text relate the argument to Thanksgiving?\",\"answer\":\"It treats Thanksgiving as a typically American celebration tied to production and abundant consumption, arguing that the campaign urges Americans to experience hunger in direct conjunction with that holiday of abundance.\"},{\"question\":\"What economic reasoning does the text critique?\",\"answer\":\"It critiques proposals about cutting meat appetite and changing fertilizer policy, arguing these ideas would cause unemployment and bankruptments across the meat and related industries while also affecting food supply outcomes.\"}]","CASHING IN ON HUNGER | PDF",1790623913,11]