Until Employment or the Apocalypse

An abandoned theater in Rochester, New York. Formerly a pornographic theater, then just a facade after the Walgreens next door gutted it to use as a warehouse. The Walgreens with it's shampoo and baby formula and half of the store locked in cages; the contradictions stare into you. You go because it is the nearest pharmacy, close in walking distance for you and your disabled loved ones.

The Walgreens shuts down and it too, is now just a vacant facade, next to a vacant facade. You stare into the large windows meant to advertise it's contents, now only showcasing absence. A wide open space with torn up floors. You think about how perfect the location could be for low income housing, for squatting, for anything other than standing as a constant reminder of the city's failures to her people. The parking lot is empty, save for the occasional cop car, to ensure no one uses the lot or the building for anything at all. The cop ensures the space will stay as useless as himself.

They add letters to the theater's marquee; a reminder and encouragement of surveillance. "If you see something, say something. In progress call 911, over and done call 311." They board up the doors, ensuring that the space will stay in it's intended form: empty, useless, an eyesore that reminds everyone of their place. The freshly boarded up door has been emblazoned with a message from those who lack.

Pictured above is Rain, an artwork by Thurlow Small Architecture, hung from the M Street NE underpass in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington, DC. It’s one of three artworks in a series commissioned by the neighborhood to beautify the area.

And by beautify, I mean drive out the unsightly homeless.

Local law states that the homeless cannot encamp on, in, or under public art, so the NoMa Parks Foundation identified three underpasses uniquely situated out of the elements and targeted them for their installations. Now of course, it doesn’t completely deter souls seeking shelter, but it does empower law enforcement to harass them and drive them into more hidden, less comfortable crevices of the city. Out of sight and out of mind.

That's because they HAD to return to the empire and rebels shit, they couldn't think of anything else, this is what happens when you let J.J. Abrams direct something based on nostalgia

You know your heroes? Leia who fought her entire life for freedom and a new republic and who found family and love? Well her New Republic is gone, she's bitterly divorced, we never see her interact with her brother, it's implied she was a failure as a jedi, and she dies like that. You know Han, that rogue with a heart of gold who finally found something and someone to fight for? Well, he's now divorced and a loser and is smuggling again despite being one of the most celebrated heroes of a generation, because people can never change am I right?

You know Luke Skywalker? THE guy people think of when they hear the word "hero"? Well, he's a bitter loser, everything he fought for was in vain, and he just kind of gave up. Also the Jedi are destined to be weirdos in bathrobes forever and they'll never evolve or change

remember this?

this was all for nothing you stupid idiot your heroes SUCK and are LOSERS and everything they fought for was POINTLESS and CHANGE IS IMPOSSIBLE, you will have to live the past FOREVER

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