You ever just walk through a shopping centre and let the full bizarre incongruity of capitalism wash over you? Every shop you pass is full of products that will never be bought - that were always destined to be thrown out rather than used - because that's how it works.
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All these cheap plastic tchotchkes and toys, things that would maybe be meaningful if crafted and loved individually but which instead are almost universally known to be and treated as meaningless tat, engaging at the moment of purchase and then forgotten.
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You know? The sheer SCALE of it. The absolute, visceral unsustainability of every single subservient industry that underpins modern capitalism. It's so bizarre in so many ways, I can't believe how normalised it is; and yet I still unsee it a lot of the time for the same reason.
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I read a great book, about archeologists unearthing us after we were buried in drifts of junk mail. They believed the bathroom was the center of our religion because of the shininess and sheer space devoted to it. It was ridiculous and I've never been able to find it again.
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