Ah, a teaching moment and likely lost on all the ashen-faced ones.
And though I wear my refuse-to-shop-at-Wal-Mart sensibilities quite openly, and use every opportunity to direct people to the light, people will nod dumbly in agreement, then note how they HAD to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's because that's the best place to pick up a pallet of toilet paper, 1200-cup supplies of styrofoam cups and 500-packs of frozen burger patties for the best deal.
I can't compete with logic like that. And if I point out which items are made in, say China, especially items that are now made there that used to be made here, again with the pause. Again with the repeated mantra that it's the only place they could get deals like that.
Interestingly, a couple of consuming friends were telling me they really just didn't get the heavy handed parts of WALL-E, the parts where the mega-corporation that had taken over everything had made Earth unliveable and turned the people into mindless consumers. Now THAT's Science Fiction, they say. Uh-huh.
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And though I wear my refuse-to-shop-at-Wal-Mart sensibilities quite openly, and use every opportunity to direct people to the light, people will nod dumbly in agreement, then note how they HAD to shop at Wal-Mart or Sam's because that's the best place to pick up a pallet of toilet paper, 1200-cup supplies of styrofoam cups and 500-packs of frozen burger patties for the best deal.
I can't compete with logic like that. And if I point out which items are made in, say China, especially items that are now made there that used to be made here, again with the pause. Again with the repeated mantra that it's the only place they could get deals like that.
Interestingly, a couple of consuming friends were telling me they really just didn't get the heavy handed parts of WALL-E, the parts where the mega-corporation that had taken over everything had made Earth unliveable and turned the people into mindless consumers. Now THAT's Science Fiction, they say. Uh-huh.
--M