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I hate artificial uselessness.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I was walking down the street and I passed by this shoe:<\/p>\n

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I would not normally take a picture of a shoe. Smaller objects, I will often pick up and hold onto for a while. I have no idea why. But shoes are too big, too personal. So normally, I note them and move on. Yesterday, however, several paces past the athletic shoe, I came upon a thong:[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

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I present these lonely shoes to you because they really bug me. I have no problem with junk: half a remote control, a cracked PEZ dispenser, a crushed Hot Wheel. Certainly, I wonder how these things ended up on the road.[2]<\/a> These are trash. But what of the lonely shoes? Look at the athletic shoe in the picture above. It is in fine shape. But it is useless. I can’t help but imagine that somewhere else there is a matching perfectly good shoe. Also now useless.<\/p>\n

I hate waste like this. We are none of us useless just because we no longer have a match.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Just watch. Now I will get all kinds of porn spam on this page.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> This is why the opening of Breaking Bad<\/i> is so great. How does a pair of pants end up on a country road? We’d all like to think that the random objects we see each have such interesting stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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