The World’s Largest Shopping Mall — Is Empty
October 10th, 2009Must see. Beyond must see, especially for connoisseurs of the surreal and the absurd.
Via: PBS:
Is nothing American sacred anymore? The largest mall in the world turns out not to be the famous Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. It’s the South China Mall outside of Guangzhou, China. Outdoing the techniques of American consumerism, South China Mall is Disneyland, Las Vegas and Mall of America rolled into one. There are carnival rides, mini-parks, canals and lakes amid classic Western-style buildings with space for hundreds of shops.
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And four years after its construction, the mall sits virtually empty of both shops and shoppers. But the Chinese have imported yet another concept familiar to Americans — South China Mall is considered too big to fail. So, employees line up for flag-raising ceremonies and pep talks about “brand building” before going off to maintain the deserted concourses meticulously.
amazing…after watching the short doc, it became easier to understand how the Chinese have been snookered by the US into all of the criminal financial schemes, manipulated like country rubes by the sophisticated Wall Street Mafioso, if they so willingly bought into this LSD-crazed (I’m only guessing…) fiasco….
I guess I had bought into the propaganda that the inscrutable Chinese had not bought into the Western ideal, were studious, industrious, hard-working, nose-to-the-grindstone types with little time for hair-brained, idiotic schemes, only interested in the here-and-now, make-money-save-build-grow ideal…obviously some dreamers over there…maybe the CIA put something in the food chain years ago, and it is now bearing fruit…or they watch too much Western TV…that makes more sense…