Stray Country - Season 1 - A Carousel For Pigs - Chapter 9

We've reached the part of the story where it may be time to ask yourself, perhaps it's time to consider the origin of the white plastic grocery sack.  What it is.  And how it got here.

 

Don't bother reaching for your phone.

 

You don't need it.

 

Because you already know it was made by a group of people.  Men or women who hog-tied one dollar.  A dollar they were trying to turn into two.  So they could take both dollars and breed them like dogs.  Men who wanted to stud Benjamin Franklin.  Women who took the forefather's maxim 'money begets money' quite Biblically.  People who saw Grant, and Jackson, Lincoln and Washington as heat-cycle bitches.

 

You see the white plastic grocery sack was not an invention. 

 

It's a byproduct. 

 

Same as soot.  Same as slag.  Same as smoke.  Same as straw.  A byproduct of breeding dollar bills.  Something that shows up once humankind starts studding dead presidents on an industrial scale.

 

The moral of today's chapter?

 

I'll let you decide.