The propaganda spearpoint of corporate conquest is often the promise of convenient, consistent and cheap goods and services.
Cheap food and cheap goods are dangerous illusions which do not exist.
Local stakeholders who care about their own community are the supreme antidote to corporate poisoning of the community by brands and franchises promising cheap, consistent and affordable goods.
In the franchised pseudo-communities the stakeholders of local enterprise have been replaced with centralized corporate shareholders.
Planned obsolesce has fostered cities that look like above-ground landfills.
We make junk, we consume junk and we are junk.
The loss of craftsmanship to mechanization, specialization and outsourcing, and the orchestrated suffocation of talented tradespeople has turned America into a sweeping, franchised wasteland of disposable goods.
A disposable society is only fit for disposable people.
When we buy junk, we become junk.
In consumer life we become what we produce and consume — disposable junk to be used and thrown away.
