Capitlizing in Bubbly Creek fashion
Chicago: 1900. The year the black deaths entered the working stockyards. As Upton Sinclair indicated in "The Jungle," the horrid conditions and workings of the slave-wage system were well under way. Beef blood flowed in stagnant, slow moving rivers and animal carcasses floated about undisturbed. Tens of thousands of men, women, and children ate garbage and froze in poorly built shacks as their stomachs sat empty, or maybe filled with chemically enhanced animal byproduct.
Now flash to 2010. The former Union Stock yards are home to the Home Depot and several prominent dry-cleaning businesses. Much better. Bubbly creek is STILL bubbling as the remains of 100 year old carcasses decay and give off gas. The beef of old was served to your forefathers. Your forefathers ate it, and now you're left to resolve how things have changed for the better in Chicago - the city built on the dangerous edge of advanced exploitation (actually, A city built on this edge). Things haven't changed much in this city. The robot capitalists left when things turned sour and the city filled with modern slave drivers. They seek to concentrate wealth and leave you on one wounded knee. They hide in the reflective clad towers and breathe fire down by Dunkin' Donuts. They ride the Metra and spin stories into political favors. They gather at north side Caribou Coffee houses and plot their next move to push you into the torrent. They still send lake Michigan water into the Mississippi. And they still rule by the rule of corruption (RE: Rod Blagojevich). They separate the races and sweep the filth under the rug. If you die in Chicago your soul is sent directly to the top of the Sears Tower where it is sold to sightseers. They never knew your name. The cold hard steel still takes a life now and again under its own volition. These bodies are highly sought after, and are used for filling lake Michigan in order to fund the next lakeside condo (even though law prohibits building east of Lakeshore Drive, it does NOT limit building on fill east of Lakeshore Drive). Welcome to Chicago.
Now flash to 2010. The former Union Stock yards are home to the Home Depot and several prominent dry-cleaning businesses. Much better. Bubbly creek is STILL bubbling as the remains of 100 year old carcasses decay and give off gas. The beef of old was served to your forefathers. Your forefathers ate it, and now you're left to resolve how things have changed for the better in Chicago - the city built on the dangerous edge of advanced exploitation (actually, A city built on this edge). Things haven't changed much in this city. The robot capitalists left when things turned sour and the city filled with modern slave drivers. They seek to concentrate wealth and leave you on one wounded knee. They hide in the reflective clad towers and breathe fire down by Dunkin' Donuts. They ride the Metra and spin stories into political favors. They gather at north side Caribou Coffee houses and plot their next move to push you into the torrent. They still send lake Michigan water into the Mississippi. And they still rule by the rule of corruption (RE: Rod Blagojevich). They separate the races and sweep the filth under the rug. If you die in Chicago your soul is sent directly to the top of the Sears Tower where it is sold to sightseers. They never knew your name. The cold hard steel still takes a life now and again under its own volition. These bodies are highly sought after, and are used for filling lake Michigan in order to fund the next lakeside condo (even though law prohibits building east of Lakeshore Drive, it does NOT limit building on fill east of Lakeshore Drive). Welcome to Chicago.
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