Visiting Walmart

[jackofallgeeks]

Whenever I visit Walmart, I'm reminded of two things:
(1) People disgust me.
(2) I'm a horrible person by having no sympathy for those less fortunate than I.

Comments

[metis2be.livejournal.com]

People less fortunate than you can still have class, it's just that the ones at walmart choose not to.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

You remind me very much of Alex in this entry, and as such, it's a wonder you and I aren't more compatible romantically.

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Knowing what I know of Alex, I'm not sure how to take that.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

::laughs:: There were good things about him too. And just so there's no confusion, he and I both used to cringingly admit to one another that we sneer at people in Wal-Mart. Horrible, yes, perhaps, but true. Alex and I definitely lived out our elitism in full with one another. I remember, he used to actually dress up to go to Wal-Mart and try to have serious philosophic discussions with empty-eyed employees. It would both amuse him and drive him crazy when, at best, he got good-natured but baffled smiles, and at worst, he got nothing but a blank stare.

Even now, I can't go into a Wal-Mart without feeling subtly superior to everyone around me. Maybe that's part of the reason I avoid Wal-Mart the way I do. I don't necessarily think elitism is a bad thing...sometimes very much the contrary...but I still don't like to go in there just to stoke my own ego.

[otakulk.livejournal.com]

I kind of feel like those people are victims of the society, so I can't hold it entirely against them. I always feel like thats what "the man" wants everyone to be like: consumers.