Pickled Cucumber?

[pickled cucumber]

Mr. Brennan, you chose to monologue to me the aphorism:

"Obesity is the opiate of the American intellectual..."

The aphorism is quite endearing, but as it stands, it seems somewhat
- how shall I put it? - denuded.  Is there any foundation for it?
The term "American intellectual" brings to mind, randomly, people
like Mills, Dewey, Whitman, William James, Cage, Thoreau, DuBois.
Could you perhaps elaborate on how it is that obesity is claimed to
be - or have been - their common opiate?  Assuming, of course, that
you do not share Mr. Parcelli's view that intellectual honesty
forbids one from responding cogently to pickled cucumbers.

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