Praise be unto the almighty d'Allah! "The first casualties in the War on Christmas are already rolling in, one man trampled in a New York Wal-Mart, two men shot dead in a California Toys 'R' Us parking lot, and at least one reported fight over an Xbox. Wait-this just in off the line--this is not about the War-on-Christmas fantasy, it's about the bewildering lengths people will go to in order to obey a made-up tradition telling them to shop."
I am still amazed how quickly and easily people will give up their hard-earned cash on command, like a man with a mugger's knife in his ribs. It begins with creating a 'tradition' like Black Friday (which sounds awfully like a day I want to avoid) and then instituting the slow but inexorable 'Christmas creep' (not a fantasy, I saw Xmas crap on sale in August, no kiddin'). Society has been so well-trained by corporations and advertising over the years that they literally will trample each other to death in order to spend their money.
I admit I have socialist tendencies, must have been all that Ginsberg commie-fag stuff I read, so I pick on capitalism a bit, but only because it is a short-term desire system, and self-supporting, at that. But this institution isn't the main problem, it's people who think they and their sullen little offspring need to have that brand-new-thing, because everyone else will have it too. And we all know that hell hath no fury like a twelve year-old who doesn't get Rock Band for Christmas.
So just keep on completing the cycle by granting whatever wish their rotten little hearts desire, get them that new iPod, buy yourself a new SUV since gas is going down, and max out those credit cards, because I think the Jones' might just get ahead of you if you don't. These sheep are all lost without a Sale sign to guide them.
I am still amazed how quickly and easily people will give up their hard-earned cash on command, like a man with a mugger's knife in his ribs. It begins with creating a 'tradition' like Black Friday (which sounds awfully like a day I want to avoid) and then instituting the slow but inexorable 'Christmas creep' (not a fantasy, I saw Xmas crap on sale in August, no kiddin'). Society has been so well-trained by corporations and advertising over the years that they literally will trample each other to death in order to spend their money.
I admit I have socialist tendencies, must have been all that Ginsberg commie-fag stuff I read, so I pick on capitalism a bit, but only because it is a short-term desire system, and self-supporting, at that. But this institution isn't the main problem, it's people who think they and their sullen little offspring need to have that brand-new-thing, because everyone else will have it too. And we all know that hell hath no fury like a twelve year-old who doesn't get Rock Band for Christmas.
So just keep on completing the cycle by granting whatever wish their rotten little hearts desire, get them that new iPod, buy yourself a new SUV since gas is going down, and max out those credit cards, because I think the Jones' might just get ahead of you if you don't. These sheep are all lost without a Sale sign to guide them.
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and now i see the light, after all the spending i just did for christmas (there are those churchy types again). wish i read this post before i spent $300 on that new game system and peripherals. if only there was some way to have all the marvelous technology that man has created without all the crap that people want to throw at you while you use it.
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