PART 3 GREED (SEVENTH CIRCLE): IKEA does not exist in a world without greed. They sell you an idea — an idea that you can have it all. Your friends will swoon when they walk into your studio apartment and notice your new polka dot rug. You enter the store and pick up a giant … Continue reading Mo’s Inferno: The 9 Circles of IKEA (Part 3 of 3)
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Mo’s Inferno: The 9 Circles of IKEA (Part 2 of 3)
PART 2 GLUTTONY (THIRD CIRCLE): The cruelest part about the IKEA experience is by far the meatballs. Any place that serves those delicious little morsels can’t be bad, right? Wrong. Straight out of one of the most horrifying children’s fairy tales ever written, IKEA has put their own spin on Hansel and Gretel. The store … Continue reading Mo’s Inferno: The 9 Circles of IKEA (Part 2 of 3)
Mo’s Inferno: The 9 Circles of IKEA (Part 1 of 3)
PART 1 INTRODUCTION During my junior year at UC Santa Cruz, I took a class on Dante’s Inferno. A truly uplifting story about an Italian guy, Dante, who thought he’d take a little jaunt through hell with his buddy Virgil. He breaks hell into 9 circles, each corresponding to a sin. I thought this class … Continue reading Mo’s Inferno: The 9 Circles of IKEA (Part 1 of 3)
