("Gas stations, robbing the world of mystery")
On convenience and the problems it presents to us in the end; on convenience and what it robs us of. Following a discussion of how we can never truly be "lost" these days.
From the collection of Original Little Pieces of Paper.
Context: Picture the gas station for all of your road-traveling needs. From a fancy piece of cheese, to the modern ATM. From water with air, to the exact directions you need when you're lost from point A to B to D and back on track again, recounted to you by the gas station attendant who's using the iMap on their cell phone (since yours is charging in their wall), and not using their local prowess. Everything you need conveniently put there for you.
(This is true story.)
This is a true little piece of paper.
Note* This is also the description of a modern convenience store that also happens to sell petrol, not a dusty, broken-down, picturesque gas station.
Convenience stores: robbing the world of mystery.
When we rely only on what is convenient, we may be lead down a path of suffering so great that we don’t realize it is happening.
