08-27-2019, 09:23 AM
...and, yes, this was from before the Panic of 2008. People do not seem so ebullient about shopping at "Big Box Mart" as they once were. On the other hand, Montgomery-Ward (which was its biggest competitor for its class of customers) went extinct, and other retailers seem to be dying too (Sears).
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.