Love/Hate retailer

Cigarettes occupy an interesting position in civilisation. In Australia, they're very expensive to buy and are smoked by the poor, predominantly. I suppose this serves to encourage the bourgeois and retailer more well to do, of the humdrum middle class, to look down their noses at the poor. It's quite the conundrum really because the working poor of Australia are, by all intents and purposes, encouraged to make-believe in the purity of those above their station and/or lose themselves in trying to become them. Many of the working poor have become so subservient to the illusion of Australian culture that, like the US majority ostensibly, they don't bother to leave the country unless it's means travelling to Bali, not unlike a mainland US citizen might venture to the Caribbean or to Hawaii. Just to the north of Australia, the cigarettes in Asia remain affordable. It's a sad old world, my grandmother told me.

This image is based on the actor, Richard E Grant, in the film; Withnail and I. Actors also occupy a bizarre place in civilisation. They are the vanity-stricken front of a rampant, all-consuming, all-devouring capitalism. Actors are the saddest babies, projected as the most charismatic. Check out the film Withnail and I, though don't expect any enduring sense of happiness to come from it.

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**Original drawing available