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touch the sky, making it nearly im-
possible to see the sun, moon, and
stars. The birds replaced with metal
places and the moon with
“satellites,” that further distract the
people from understanding the truth.
The truth that while the technology
they are using makes life for them
easier, are they truly happy with it
came with? In an earlier time, an as-
tronaut from space peering at earth
was able to see the cities light up the
sky at night. However, years of in-
dulgence and ignorance led to a ball
of noxious gas encroaching the plan-
et, plunging the world into a state of
permanent darkness. In this path of
the road, it is always night time, but
illuminated by tool we sought to use
only to make living easier. Now these
tools the environment has shape
means the everything to the people
living in the world, both keeping
them distracted and alive. To rekin-
dle the old ideas of nature, people
constructed fake trees and streetlight
to decorate their streets; new cloth
attire with images of nature and
trees are sold at a high price to re-
turn to a sense of nostalgia. The
people paved paradise, and put up a
parking lot.
The Scenery of Materialism
By: Jacob Bustamante
W
inding down to the other
path of the roads leads to a
bright, shiny city with tower-
ing skyscrapers and storefronts;
however, the streets feel cold. Not
due to temperature but because the
people residing in the streets are not
interacting with each other, and are
more attentive to the mesmerizing
environment surrounding them. High
-end stores like Neiman Marcus, Ver-
sace, Apple, and Omega outline the
landscape, peddling their wares to
the masses who could not resist the
status they thought they would earn
through purchasing it. Bright neon
signs dotted the city reminiscent of
Las Vegas, but instead of displaying
the Wonders of the World, they cor-
rupted it. Each fake monument of the
Earth’s wonders and humanities
achievements reduced to mere gift
shops selling faux trinkets and mean-
ingless goods. 4k computer moni-
tors, boost enhanced sneakers, alli-
gator-lined suits lined the store’s
windows that were purchased to fill
the consumers greed for
which there was no end to.
Each person, even some
children, were distracted by
the screens surrounding
them. The displays showed
them myriads of useless in-
formation that only serve to
distract them from their dai-
ly lives. The landscape of
the cities blasts their lumi-
nescent lights into the sky
to reveal that the clouds
and ceiling of the world is
ominous and lifeless. Smog
and harmful gases plume
from the skyscrapers that
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