English is not my native language. What is bread in this article?
But the diversion wore off, as time went on, deaths kept piling off, countries were fighting each other over sharing vaccines and their patents, half the country still believes it's all a hoax... there's only so much bread that will keep you busy while no one outside shows any sign of pondering on our faults as a society and we are just waiting for the old days to come. Who cares about bread anymore.
Maybe I'm putting some of myself here, but so many parts of this society look too much like dumb tasks coming again and again with no end in sight, and for what result? Become a prince if you have the good friends/luck/money, or vanish into the void of being forgotten.
Stop being diverted by quirky social media phenomenons: fix the system, or leave it to make your own. Abort the fairy tale.
Fuck the bread - fuck the position. Times are [always] changing, you should re-evaluate everything you were so convinced about. You can make something else, you can be something else, or maybe you don't need it to begin with.
Still, simply telling an a->b story seems to be both an easier and more sure way to convey/evoke emotions than this "stream of consciousness" style or whatever it actually is.
It could also be a commentary on the ketogenic diet movement gaining ground in recent years.
Bread is also slang for money so it could be refering that the author cant make any money but thats a stretch.
On a side note, one of my favorite science/fantasy fiction authors is a professor at Brigham Young University. He completed possibly the greatest fantasy series every written, so I don't see any reason why a class about fairytales wouldn't work.
Uh, did I miss something or who’s this author you speak of?
Maybe he is not actually a prof.
Finished The Wheel of Time series after Robert Jordan passed away.