Friday, November 20, 2009
The Countdown Begins...
Black Friday commences one week from today. This horrific ritual turns otherwise kind and sane people into greedy and dangerous consumers. Armed with their credit cards and shopping carts (and the occasional handgun), they line up in the cold for their annual feeding frenzy. This is the time of year when we hunker down for the week, we make sure we have enough necessities in the house (food, coffee, chocolate and toilet paper) so that we don't have to enter any stores until the madness has blown over. Rather than spending plastic monopoly money we choose to spend time together watching good movies, playing games and puzzles, you know, those quaint old-fashioned pastimes our grandparents tell stories about. Now, I realize that I am exaggerating the point (and perhaps preaching to the choir for many of my family and friends) but that's okay. Some things are important enough to be said with excessive amounts of flair. Please join me in a better annual tradition: Buy Nothing Day!
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That's a fun picture.
ReplyDeleteIf only Eve had turned away or better yet if Adam had manned up and been the first Christ and taken the fall for her . . . but no. No he valued his relationship with Eve more than he valued Eve herself.
There's a digression!
Some times it is hard to beat material things. I mean if you want someone to know you really care about them you can give them a very expensive present. And the cool thing is that if you give that really expensive present you are off the hook and don't need to be inconvenienced by actually giving of yourself or investing in the actual relationship you simply declare and deliver.
That is the great thing about money, it solves ALL our problems. Like poor student performance. We just need to give the schools more money. We don't need to look at how to fire incompetent teachers and we certainly don't need to look at how to reward good teaching. Let's not burden teachers with clear teaching goals like the so called "Three Rs." And finally let's not inconvenience parents with involvement in their children's lives. Such involvement might interfere with the ability of the child to be the parent's buddy.
Life has become so easy that we balk at anything even remotely difficult.
K
Well said, thanks for your thoughts K (or should I say G?)!
ReplyDeleteNo. It's not G.
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K
I agree. As long as we have enough chocolate in the house there is no reason to leave!
ReplyDeleteAmen, Lisa!
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