America, Inc. - How We're Watching the Soul of Our Nation Die in Real Time
Why Does Every Town in America Looks Exactly the Same Now?
I donât leave my house much anymore. After getting stabbed investigating a child trafficking operation out west a few years back, I developed severe PTSD and became something of a hermit. Most of my food comes from the internet. Tech and supplies arrive in brown boxes from Amazon. But every now and then, I need something immediately and have no choice but to brave the great outdoors of what we still call civilization.
Today was one of those days.
Town is a few miles from where Iâm staying, so I bundled up against the freezing winter temperatures, climbed on my e-scooter, and zipped down to the local Dollar General. The fluorescent lights hit me first when I walked in. That harsh, institutional brightness that makes everything look slightly poisonous. Then the smell. Plastic and cardboard and something vaguely chemical that I coulâŠ
