Long articles that are worth reading

[fun_yunchables]

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/10/white-people-yoga-sf-asian-art-museum/

Our agreement for the installation included my assemblage of yoga ephemera that I’d collected in the form of magazines, books, posters, and album covers. Together they told the story of how the $16 billion yoga industry in this country had rebranded a South Asian discipline to sell yoga as a line of products—how yoga became Yoga™. It’s no coincidence that you rarely see a South Asian person on the cover of Yoga Journal magazine. Yoga has been put in an ironic position: Colonized and commodified, a tradition rooted in detachment and equanimity has been hijacked by a grasping possessiveness. I titled my work #WhitePeopleDoingYoga.

[fun_yunchables]

https://www.mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blood-americas-poor-late-stage-capitalism/263175/

welcom to market economics, where everything has a dollar value including you !

[rjbman]

https://www.wired.com/story/culture-fan ... d-puzzles/

do we have a crosswords thread? any interest?