The messages:
- Peace and good will on earth
- Help your neighbor.
- Give to a charity.
Together or individually, even though I think they go hand-in-hand, they are all great principles to have, embrace and fulfill, whatever.
Well to that I say, bull butter.
We wait until the last month of every year to start in with this be nice/goodwill/give crap, hereinafter referred to as “the hook.” What about the other 11 months? Why are we as a nation not preaching this throughout the year?
It sends terrible messages. Kids figure to get their act together, late November or early December, so that they can get more/better gifts. If you wake up your given the best gift ever, LIFE!
Adults figure hey, I’ll give to the homeless, hello Captain Generous, when the holidays are over they will still most likely need your help so how about extending that good will.
Business owner are the great. They give you “the hook” yet in a very subtle way they down the other business so that you can give them your money, buying products from them and not “the other guy”. Wait I thought we should be giving more to the needy, not the greedy.
If you speak your mind this month, people tell you, that not nice it’s the holidays. Oh thank you for reminding me, I’ll wait till after New Years before I curse, fire, plot revenge, steal from, murder or tear down somebody.
Watch after New Years day, we go right back to not giving a dang about anybody. The only difference is that it’s not covered with “the hook”
I’m not going on any further, I’m going to watch High Fidelity.
Oh and The Royal Tenenbaums is a great movie.
mUdd