Starbucks is one of 62 reasons to love your country

In New York, where I live, people complain about Starbucks. It's part of the litany: Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, Home Depot, the Gap. People unleash the litany to illustrate many different forms of American decay: homogenization, rapid consumerism, the architecture and design of fakeness, strip malls. But what Starbucks means isn't the death of culture. Starbucks means applying the engine of American corporate expansion for a good cause: bringing good coffee to places that used to serve Sanka. A Starbucks on every corner? Fine with me. I'm not saying I like their folk music or their $24 dessert drinks or the "lifestyle" they try to sell you. But when I'm driving on the 90 and see that Starbucks sign lit bright over the flatlands and I know I won't have to drink watery slop from a Mobil station, I'm pretty fucking happy about it."

Devin Friedman
July issue of GQ magazine



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