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How much are them boots again?

• larry:
• What about warped quotations?
• joe:
• things are commonplace, pictured often and generic
• larry:
• ah
• joe:
• my thesis is that by american standards i am a "regular"
• i forgot why i am supposed to not like starbucks
• or walmart
• larry:
• Their success, and the success of capitalism (in destroying democracy, critical judgement, and literacy) is in *everyone* forgetting why we were supposed not to like them.
• joe:
• "their" being the "administration"?
• larry:
• Well, substitutes thereof.
• I just think it's natural - intended and foretold - that even those who originally knew THAT and WHY they didn't like corporate hegemony would eventually develop the amnesia of ubiquity and would acquiesce.
• THE AMNESIA HAS YOU.
• joe:
• you think?
• maybe
• larry:
• I do.
• joe:
• i am just saying i am going to shop where i can get the most for the money
• i mean i dont mind paying $200 for a pair of boots but for half than that i can get a whole lot of groceries at the superwalmart
• larry:
• ...as well you should. And we all do. But that pursuit has become central to what it means to be an American - and in America central to what it means to be alive.
• How tragic that such is the landscape of options for thought now prevalent among us.
• joe:
• and in the summer the farmstands are plentiful but for right now 100 goes a long way at walmart
• and we all do what we need to