Comments on: We Shopped till he Dropped http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/11/29/we-shopped-till-he-dropped/ let's activate something Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: lukelm http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/11/29/we-shopped-till-he-dropped/#comment-19323 lukelm Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:23:51 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=584#comment-19323 It's clear that consumerism taps into something much deeper in the human psyche/soul than the requisite desire associated with any series of alluring objects. Maybe it's the need for hope. People need to believe in something that will come in the future that will make their lives full & complete - the illusion of hope for sale, at low price. Nothing that will come in the future can fulfill. There is no future. There's only what we have, and what we are, right now. It’s clear that consumerism taps into something much deeper in the human psyche/soul than the requisite desire associated with any series of alluring objects. Maybe it’s the need for hope. People need to believe in something that will come in the future that will make their lives full & complete - the illusion of hope for sale, at low price.

Nothing that will come in the future can fulfill. There is no future. There’s only what we have, and what we are, right now.

]]> By: Tim Baer http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2008/11/29/we-shopped-till-he-dropped/#comment-19310 Tim Baer Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:36:03 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/?p=584#comment-19310 I have no problem with a little gift giving. But holy shit, our consumerism has just gone too, too far. You hear about this every year. Stores open at 6 am. 5 am. 4 am. Each year earlier. Each year mobs of people grabbing at shit that won't matter next year. Nothing satisfies our stuff-lust (I coined the term. A nickle everytime you use it.). Santa Claus, or Saint Nick, Saint of Children, is now a secular gift giving elf, a sort of god of consumerism which we celebrate every 25th of December. And it all makes sense, really. Americans exist to buy things, our entire culture has become the existence of garnering items. It makes sense our agnostic nation has replaced its previous God and It's birthday with a new god. Just like in the old days, Farmers worshipped gods of the sun and rain. Sailors, gods of the sea. Merchants, gods of the roads. In America, where our trades are not as important as the shit we acquire, our god is the god of merchandise. He comes annually to eat our cookies and leave electronics. Let us pray. I have no problem with a little gift giving. But holy shit, our consumerism has just gone too, too far.

You hear about this every year. Stores open at 6 am. 5 am. 4 am. Each year earlier. Each year mobs of people grabbing at shit that won’t matter next year. Nothing satisfies our stuff-lust (I coined the term. A nickle everytime you use it.). Santa Claus, or Saint Nick, Saint of Children, is now a secular gift giving elf, a sort of god of consumerism which we celebrate every 25th of December. And it all makes sense, really. Americans exist to buy things, our entire culture has become the existence of garnering items. It makes sense our agnostic nation has replaced its previous God and It’s birthday with a new god. Just like in the old days, Farmers worshipped gods of the sun and rain. Sailors, gods of the sea. Merchants, gods of the roads.

In America, where our trades are not as important as the shit we acquire, our god is the god of merchandise. He comes annually to eat our cookies and leave electronics. Let us pray.

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