INDUSTRIAL OBLIVION

By Paula Macena

Here’s the thing they won’t tell you about these types of things: We don’t care if the chicken or the egg came first. Yes, the lifelong mystery of how and when and why—it ultimately doesn’t matter. No, don’t look behind me, over there, in the midst. No, there’s nothing to see, just a crumbling infrastructure that houses billions of chickens and eggs, and no one asks the question of which came first.

I know you want that thing, that nondescript thing you have saved in your wishlist, or in your cart, on your knees begging to buy it from the clutches of Bezos. So, what are you willing to do to get it? Maybe you’ll pick up an extra shift, you’ll get another godforsaken side hustle that capitalist culture tells you you need, and whoever doesn’t have a side hustle is stupid and lazy and they deserve their poverty. So, you want that thing? Go fetch.