American Mall-English

Portrait of a Windy-City mall visit creating superstition/friendship/commerce for 3 peculiar adult-pals of Western definition.

A capitalism 'street-lore' philosophy or vignette very loosely inspired by the 'excellent' Western-world culture-film Mallrats (Jason Lee). Enjoy (and Happy Holidays!), 

DISCLAIMER: The images used herein reflect no direct/official view(s) of the city of Chicago and are therefore re-presented as purely a personal/fictional work of social traffic expression. 

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It was a nice Xmas-season of shopping approaching in Chicago, and three special folks decided randomly to converge inside the iconic shopping-mall and discover some of the everyday charms of normal life but had something special on their minds, perhaps separately and together simultaneously (ha).

AMLAN: Look at that 'stranger' dude walking in full-gear and mask down the street, buds?
TEDDY: Maybe he thinks he's part of a chemical-warfare protest campaign about to kick-off ahead of the Super-Bowl, right?
ESMERELDA: Let's just get to the mall, fellows.

The three individuals converged at a Starbucks before heading to the Chicago mall and en-route had spotted the 'stranger' fellow in gas-mask and raincoat/gear and perhaps arguably was darting to some chemical-war street-protest or 'event' in the challenging Windy City in this new era of strange 'chess' ideations of capitalism blended with competitive Ego (ha).

TEDDY: I'm an architect...I think like an architect...I think about design/streets...maybe this Selfie-culture is about chatting.

ESMERELDA: I like making this mall-trip an 'exercise' for drawing Amlan/Teddy out of some commercial Ego/FaceTime.

AMLAN: We're to the Pro-Image Sports store first; I have to see if they've this Eagles-Cunningham rookie-diamond, ok?

Amlan was the most eccentric of the mall-trip in Chicago that Xmas-season, since he'd been the choreographer of the Porcellian chess-society (cyber) and wanted a special Cunningham early-career pro-football spirits 'capitalist' sports card to accent his social-media work with capitalism-driven chess-play for youth-education and Selfie-culture chat(s).

The mall was busy, as expected for an Xmas-season, and you might think a random shopping-day you'd see yielded a patterned/designed photo-spread for North American traffic Ego, regardless if you're Catholic or Protestant (ha). This is Western-world 'human race' consumerism, worthy of defense(s).

AMLAN: What the hell are you doing here on a Saturday, Shelbye?
SHELBYE: Just because I'm your 'ex' (now), Amlan Satan, doesn't mean I can't be found 'randomly' for a mall-Selfie (for me!).

AMLAN: Alright, alright; I'm with 'Ezzy' (now) anyway; anyways, I'm just here (Xmas) for a Randal Cunningham cyber-thing.

STORE-OWNER: Yes, I have the card (now) for you, Mr. Satan.

AMLAN: It's about time...I came here with my two best-pals of the Windy City (Teddy/Ezzy) to showcase/buy this diamond!

STORE-OWNER: I'd anticipated such an Xmas-thing, Mr. Satan.

AMLAN: I'll give you a $1K for it, cool fellow (ha)!

ESMERELDA: I just saw a stranger 'specter' walking by and started to think I was in a cinema-project; it was real (a ghost!).

AMLAN: It was a Martian.

"Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution" (Ben Shapiro).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)