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Years ago I lived with a woman who had this guilt thing about our respective incomes. On movie-night she'd compensate by loading up her big, stretchy, hippie-purse (I called it that, which she loved. Hey, she's my ex.) with two cans of soda and a microwave bag of popcorn. I don't know how she managed but nobody ever checked.
I never dared more than a bag of m&ms.
Now I'd get nervous smuggling a stick of gum in my wallet.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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