How I Spent My New Year’s Day: High Out of My Mind at a Giant Mall

This is something I like to do once a year while the Christmas decorations are still up. Just have a leisurely stroll through one of America’s many ostentatious monuments to our own prosperity and the material abundance it has produced, on which we all eagerly gorge.

I’m not knocking it. It’s like comfort food for the senses. The jolly music, the in…