These are pictures of some of what's for sale from the beginning of one entrance at the Star Market that's across the street from the Prudential Center.
Is anyone even going to buy all of this? How much of it will have to be thrown away, while millions of people have nothing?
This what supermarkets in the Unoted States are like; thousands of dollars of merchandise, stocked to give the impression of abundance so that people will buy it. I'm not saying anything negative about that; I'm an American shopper like most Americans.
The quiet and the peace are deceptive; Americans, despite all of our griping, are used to having abundance around us. We just don't know anything about what life is like for other people, and even if we aren't totally self-absorbed, we always have the option of not thinking about what life is like for other people. People who don't have what we have don't have the option of not thinking about what their lives are like every day; hunger, pain and fear are mental demands that dominate everything else.
Copyright L. Kochman, July 21, 2017 @10:26 a.m.
