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It's a studiously apolitical book but Marc Levinson's THE BOX (2016), a detailed history of containerized shipping, is a really great way to understand how the global supply chain works - and how terrifyingly precarious it is.
Those store shelves could be empty a *lot* more quickly than many people think.
press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box?srsltid=AfmBOoqXsS0CLVSoje_8d4RVV7xiLFh... ...
"There's more to life than being able to buy cheap garbage," sagely intones your friend from high school who became homicidally angry and had a complete mental breakdown from which he has never recovered because he couldn't go to big box stores and chain restaurants for 3 weeks in 2020. ...
J. Dryden says:
I wasn't aware "Political Indoctrination" was something that could be objectively quantified. (Unless there's a dull, unfunny explanation, like they're devoting 50% more service time to it. But we'll ignore that humorless possibility.) Regardless, gotta love the fact that their scheduling makes their parishioners have to CHOOSE between "Worship" and "Bible Study"–oh, I suppose you could do one, THEN the other, but wouldn't that mean missing out on the Breakfast-Serving-Window at McDonald's? Priorities, people!