tactical disillusionment charm

Saw a waymo in the supermarket parking lot this morning. First time I’ve seen one around here. Hard to express the withering sense of defeat that immediately washed over me. “We’re obligated to vandalize it,” R said. But there was a guy standing next to it, his polo shirt the exact shade of pale blue as the car. I recently downloaded the DeFlock app and am eager to use it. Not that it Does Anything, besides Make Me Feel Better. But I’m looking around the parking lot and was surprised I didn’t see any. No surveillance in a supermarket parking lot? Since when! Small victories. 9am on a Sunday. Like I get there’s probably an argument the roads become safer without all the humans behind their wheels (most of whom are looking at their phones anyway). It’s just the tech conglomerate billionaires running E V E R Y T H I N G E V E R Y W H E R E. The additional fascist steamroller pass over anything even remotely resembling choice, individuality, creativity. Things happening to us simply…