It has everything. It has:

  • Giant 10 Commandments slab in the entryway
  • A declaration of war against birds
  • An old person's idea of the ideal zoomer store - a store just for taking selfies with random statues and backgrounds
  • A restaurant that serves homemade soups and cobblers (soft food is good for dentures)
  • A "WWII Museum" stocked by the guy down the street who has an alarming amount of Nazi war artifacts

A liminal space carved out of the carcass of 80s/90s consumerism. Some real twilight zone shit. A bizarre holographic projection of the past onto a more recent past onto the present.

    • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      They're a pretty good example of the efficiency of capitalism. Congress made some kind of loophole that allowed land developers to make tons of money building giant, wasteful, behemoths that both make commerce more difficult due to the renting thing and screwing over the dupes who bought the land/malls after they were developed. They literally only exist as a get quick rich scheme. All that land wasted. All those resources wasted. All the energy to heat/cool giant indoor plazas. Yet the mall was genuinely a social focal point for gen x and early millennials.

      Now they're turning into this and it's some kind of fantastic cronenberg monster of failed capitalist economics and cultural malaise.