Deserts. Food deserts. Concrete deserts.
The Ayn Rand utopian paradise of contrived urban communities supported by industrial outlet box stores which we see proliferating today is unsustainable. The Walmart model has proven that box stores leave behind concrete deserts of wasted land, human labor, community unity, and public resources, all for the private profit of a few. Driving supply chain, food, fuel, clothing, shelter, items into narrower and more restrictive environments, both excluding the very poor and catering to the very rich. Food deserts which cripple health. Health deserts which kill the poor. Shelter, clothing, fuel deserts which eliminate the middle classes.
On scale nationwide erasing populations that once were forced to intermingle and learn to co-operated to survive, this devastating apartheid is crumbling the foundation of American societal structure for the profit of a few at the cost of the inevitable destruction of the many.
Dear Mother, How we got here, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980) was the Shah of Iran . In 1941, he succeeded his father Reza Shah and ruled the Imperial State of Iran until 1979 when the Iranian Revolution overthrew him. During World War II, the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran forced the abdication of Reza Shah and succession of Mohammad Reza Shah. During his reign, the British-owned oil industry was nationalized by the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had support from Iran's national parliament to do so; however, Mosaddegh was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which was carried out by the Iranian military under the aegis of the United Kingdom and the United States. Subsequently, the Iranian government centralized power under the Shah and brought foreign oil companies back into the country's industry through the Consortium Agreement of 1954. In 1963 , Mohammad Reza Shah introduced the White Revolution, a seri...
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