fuck everything

World of Video was swallowed by ten thousand ordinary people. They just bought it up! They took a library private! I mean, this is really obvious and dumb: in the store's final days the movies got sold instead of rented, taken out of the store for $10 forever instead of $4 for two days. What a deal! But World of Video's closure made me realize what a stark thing a purchase is, how horrifically final. Now you're alone with your movie that you'll watch twice in the next 35 years, and a community is dead, scattered in private dusty homes because people didn't care for the compromises and expense and community of a give and take. I will never, ever shop at Blaustein's fucking hardware shop.