![]() ![]() My theory and fear is that bargain basement consumerism engenders bargain basement sensibilities, and that we suffer because of the ways that we consume. Why? A good question, with a complicated answer, having to do with investigating the kinds of culture that shopping creates. It also occurred to me, again, and even more strangely now that I was here, that I was travelling to Whitehorse simply to visit a Wal-Mart. These mountains were rounder than those west of Calgary, where I live, as well as more densely treed, more glacial, untrammelled and clean. The mountains grew bigger as I looked out to the west and the plane pitched forward. ![]() Out the plane’s windows, the peaks of mountains poked up through massive glaciers between intermittent clouds. We were arriving in the Yukon a couple of days before the summer solstice. Previously, the furthest north I’d been was Helsinki, even though my family comes from what is usually called “northern” Alberta (despite being more or less the geographic centre of the province). Just before our flight touched down, it occurred to me that Whitehorse was the farthest north I’d ever been. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |