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As a child there were many experiences that followed traditional American norms that I participated in without question. On occasions I was taken to fast food restaurants for dinner, and bargain stores for school supplies. Spending and consuming is an American experience for many, and often people value bargains and illusions over the actually quality of the thing itself. Task: Enter into a fast food restaurant, ask as many questions as I could about how to acquire the biggest thing

Sometimes people die unexpectedly and the leave behind a house full of things from their past.  Estate sales are public markets. and many people can override ethical questions about reclaiming the property of the dead by the incredible cheap deals they can get from their personal objects. Estate sales are rampant throughout America, because America as a nation has a tendency to accumulate an incredible amount of  things, without any necessary obligation to realize a material future past a singular

Raiders and cowboys, Young boys chanting and taunting the other team: TAPE sample: sports chants and taunts 30sec The Raiders are represented in silver and black, symbolizing pirates who invade and overtake with their steel and their destruction The Cowboys are represented in blue and white, colors extracted from the American flag, for rugged heroes who claim their territory Like many sports, American football is a game of  reclaiming territory on a field, conquering space, and passing into guarded zones.

Where is America?, You don't have to look,  America is what is happening. It's time can begin whenever you choose, even in some made up fiction of America. Everyone has a different interpretation of America, and no-one can possibly exchange each other's experience. Ernesto's story of a life was vivid and very effective to imagine, but one impossible to live by anyone other than himself. He ends on "We are all here singing the national anthem." Some of us don't