I am creating this as a small experiment with myself and as a public diary for those that are interested. Mainly relating to matters on the web and with what I've been thinking about. I plan on updating it every so often.
08/04/25
I'm thinking about the abandoned Mexia supermarket event in Fort Worth in 1999. I learned about it a couple months ago while browsing Youtube, and while it grossed me out to death I am starting to think of it in the context of some sort of conceptual piece. What interests me isn't the filth, it's the fact that something like that contained so much life after such a short amount of time, and lasted so long. Further, it's the analysis of it. How much energy is in a simple store like that? And how many people does the store directly affect? It's odd how much wealth I have around me, I feel like there are very few true quantifing moments of how much exists like the one above, or seemingly quantifiable moments. What could be argued is the fact that humans are stupid and wasteful compared to mold, rats, bugs, and the entirety of nature, and this is why they were so successful in that market. Yet what's odd is that it's arguable humans have the ability to acheive similar levels of being unwasteful, in a way that does not require the despiration found in animals truly suriving.