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Although it might seem just like one more \u201cMoses parts X\u201d cartoon, today\u2019s Non Sequitur comic<\/a> actually gets at an interesting point, if you think about it.<\/p>\n

When people in modern industrialized nations talk about miracles, they often have in mind things like finding a parking spot, or finding one\u2019s car after exiting (it may feel like escaping) the mall.<\/p>\n

So many people have no sense of what slavery could actually be like, and what liberation from an oppressive dictator might entail.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we do need a modern-day Moses, not to help us find his car or ours, but to actually lead us in escaping the mall and all it symbolizes, a consumer culture in which we exist like modern-day Pharaohs at the expense of others who make bricks without straw for our benefit more than their own.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"