03-21-2020, 07:24 AM
(03-20-2020, 01:24 PM)Mickey123 Wrote: Walmart.
But Wal*Mart is becoming old-hat. Its style of marketing does not foster individuality. It is a mass-market model established in the 1960's (I got introduced to one of its earliest stores in Paragould, Arkansas -- store #36 -- in the late 1960's). It well fits the Reagan-Trump era (the Individualist era of the Skowronek cycle of politics and economics) but might not well fit into a time that knows the difference between individualism and individuality and cherishes the latter.
Dated -- but people were buying a counterfeit version of the American Dream and selling out a more workable and sustainable reality so that they could buy huge quantities of consumer schlock. The store could as easily be K-Mart, Target, or Meijer as well as Wal*Mart, or such entities now vanished as Woolco, Gibson's and Ames. W.T. Grant tried that rote and failed.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.