Last Exploration: Amanda Chirico

Reading Wendell Berry’s essay “The Idea of a Local Economy” was a bit eye opening for me. I found myself agreeing with many things he discussed throughout the essay. He did a good job giving facts and having evidence to back up the facts. He also brings up some points that were discussed in the short film “Fresh” which I thought was interesting. I found it interesting how he laid out this essay, starting with “environmental crisis” and giving his opinion, to going on to  “free market” economy, then to the “global economy” and finally ending with, what he says is the only good way for someone to protect themselves the “local economy”. I like what he said at the end of page 32, “They thus became helplessly dependent on an economy over which they had no control. Such was the fait of the native people under the African colonialism of Schweitzer’s time. Such is, and can only be, the fate of the native people under the global colonialism of are time”(Berry). Charlie and Amber I agree with you guys on how corporations don’t care about the problems that exist. All they want is the money, like Charlie said if they can survive and grow, their happy.

An issue that doesn’t get discussed enough or even ever for that matter, would have to be, how long you have to wait in a Costco line to check out. Now for some of you who’ve never been to Costco before it’s basically this huge warehouse with literally anything and everything you could ever want or need. Most items are sold in bulk so you don’t have to purchase them every time you turn around, and that’s part of the the problem just yesterday when I was there to purchase only two cases of water I found myself waiting behind someone who was purchasing no joke, 90 cartons of strawberries. They had three carts full of strawberries and I had two cases of water. Now maybe it was my mistake to get behind them but to my defense all the other lines were much, much longer and I felt well this shouldn’t take to long. So as I was waiting for what felt like forever for these people to get their 90 cartons of strawberries cheeked out I though, Costco lines are ridiculous. Now that wasn’t the first time I ever thought that before, it happens ever time I ever go there. I find myself waiting longer to checkout then I am shopping around. The workers try and go as fast as they can but sometimes well most of the time it’s just not fast enough. I guess what I’m trying to say is Costco needs to do something about there long lines before people like me go crazy!!! I hope this could make you laugh or maybe you could even relate to it, I don’t know, I just really couldn’t think of anything else to write about. :)