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title manifesto
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>%epigraph%
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>Man cannot live on bread alone.
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>— Jesus of Nazareth
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>%epigraph%
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>They say bread is life.
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>— Ronny Cammareri of Brooklyn
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Bread was invented tens of thousands of years ago,
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probably by someone drunk because they had the munchies.
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It's been made continuously since then
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by people of varying degrees of sobriety
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and to varying degrees of success.
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For nearly its entire history,
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bread has been made using stale dough from earlier bread,
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or from a fresh-made pool of fermented wheat and water.
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It took time,
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but it was good,
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and we had time.
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Of course,
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the Market came along,
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and with it hunger:
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the hunger of the working-class,
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who did not have time to
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sit and wait for bread.
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We invented instant yeast in a lab,
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we invented styrofoam bread with no taste
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but fast turnaround,
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and we called it good.
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But we knew not what we did —
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or at least, many of us didn't.
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The alphabet, they say, was invented only once.
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Bread is invented every time, anew.
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It's life itself.
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And life is not for sale.
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Breadpunk rejects the commoditization of life by market capitalism.
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Breadpunk is an attitude that something our ancestors made largely for free
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is not something we should be spending money on.
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Breadpunk is the idea that we have time again,
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that industrialism gives us time to bake bread.
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Breadpunk is simple:
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**MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN BREAD.**
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