One of the things that led me to turn in my Sam's Club card was listening to the mentally-challenged woman checking me out tell some story about taking the bus to her second job. The story itself was some small-talk nothingness, but the context got to me. Why does this woman need to have two jobs? Why does she have to take the bus? Why is taking the bus such a shitty mode of transport in NOLA? Why are so many of the cashiers at Sam's Club handicapped?
Circumstances led me, last week, to end up shopping in a WalMart. It was a sobering look at the the reality of America. There's some website out there about "the people of Walmart" that holds up other people for ridicule. I've never liked the very idea, because, well, "they is us."
America is WalMart. WalMart is America. The sooner we all accept that grim reality, the sooner the Revolution will come.
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Circumstances led me, last week, to end up shopping in a WalMart. It was a sobering look at the the reality of America. There's some website out there about "the people of Walmart" that holds up other people for ridicule. I've never liked the very idea, because, well, "they is us."
America is WalMart. WalMart is America. The sooner we all accept that grim reality, the sooner the Revolution will come.
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