SUVs

[joanna bujes]

There was this New Yorker cartoon that caught one aspect of the SUV 
phenomenon: It showed a disgruntled middle aged male sitting next to his 
buddy in an SUV that towers above the rest of the traffic (but stalled in 
the middle of this traffic) and saying, "You think I would have gotten one 
of these if I knew they were going to come out with a $9 boner pill?"

Now Viagra has been around for a while and folks are still buying SUVs... I 
guess the application of Viagra still requires some intimacy...whereas SUVs....

I don't know. Again, if you take Robinson Crusoe as one of the founding 
capitalist myths, the SUV and everything it offers, subverts that myth: 
it's headed back to the island. It also always struck me that it is the 
post-holocaust vehicle of choice. There's this fantasy wrapped up in it 
that after the bombs go off, or the darkies riot, or whatever, you can pack 
your family in your SUV and head for the hills.

Joanna Bujes