Where The Supercenters Roam

I live on the very east coast on the spit of land between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. My guess nowadays is that there are about as many buffalo here as in any state in the union. It is hard to imagine the Great Plains before the buffalo massacres. It was dotted with the American Bison in the same way most medium sized towns are dotted with homo sapiens. The buffalo were the life of the native Americans. I can't name a single animal that is as important to us today as was the buffalo to them. Except maybe WalMart.

Today we get all we need from the Walmart:food, clothing, tools, you name it. All that came from buffalo for the Native Americans is now mass produced for us in far away places. In the move westward Anglo-Saxons wiped out the buffalo in order to wipe out the natives, and claim the land. They called it eminent domain. Walmart is also exercising eminent domain, wiping out the small town shops with all of it's cheap and imitation wares of necessity. It is also wiping out the American worker in much the same way, with the cheapest labor for the worst imitation of goods. Bad product and WalMart product are becoming synonymous to me. It is the same everywhere it seems. The things of beauty and dignity are being replaced by the ugly face of greed.

I think buffalo faces are much nicer.

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