FUCK YOU ALL I’M GOING TO LOWES

[Richter]

     Ever get the sense it's not a world for the self sufficient human anymore?  You can go from place, one resource dump to the next, and be hard pressed to cull out any useful things from the masses of distracting crap they have.  If you want to do for yourself, without leaning down and paying for someone else to do for you, you need to visit the temples devoted to the various areas of the household, and view their proselytization on HOW THOU SHOULD before being allowed to gather what you want and leave.  This is the pitch, the hook, the way that fair and retail alike curry converts from the crawling consumer. 

     Each one of these houses to strange gods has its own expected supplicant too.  A wide viewed asshole can see the pornography in power tools, power mixers, and powerful sewing machines just as easily, but that won't do for some of these places.  They were all built, so the people would accept them more easily, on the archetypes of the old gods.  As an exercise, write down Hephaestus, Demeter, (Or any list of major Greek / Norse / Egyptian Gods), and walk through a mall, strip mall, or retail park seeing which might fit what.  It's a simple matching exercise.  Hiding it might confuse people after all.

     Watch people visit these kinds of places and parcel themselves out to the respective places.  A car might discharge people heading with equal vigor towards crafts, hardware and clothing stores.  The family divides to hail their patron deities, to reconvene once they have made their prayers and received their goods.  You may notice the conspicuous absence of Ra, Odin, Zeus, and a few other notable high ups.  The places that sell you how to be the BOSS are a bit more subtle and hard to find.  There's enough to distract the masses though, and they can't have anyone just stumbling in accidentally.