Monday, November 24, 2003
Mack's dumber than usual today
I practically have to do a line-by-line, he's so full of it this week.
This Thanksgiving holiday, while scarfing down turkey and contemplating American Indian genocide...
Learn to not get your asses kicked by invaders, next time.
You could submit to the Mall and run up your credit card in the always-vain attempt to substitute gifts for friendship.
Yet more proof that Mack doesn't have any real friends. Gifts are an expression of friendship. There's a reason $20 bills are not considered good gifts, and it's not because the receiver doesn't want $20. (Or I should hope not, anyway)
For 24 hours, participants refrain from purchases and instead perform street theater or irrational acts of generosity.
Gee, I hope they're not consuming any electricity that day. Although, if you look at his list of things-to-do for Buy Nothing Day, you'll note that none of them have anything to do with generosity, and are instead focused on trying to be an asshole.
The Buy Nothing Day campaign recently came up with a series of ingenious commercials, only to be flatly refused airtime by all major TV networks.
Hmm, guess they weren't so ingenious after all. A real ingenious commercial would be able to get aired.
Even the Wall Street Journal has taken note of the Buy Nothing campaign as a legitimate threat. Potential support for the boycott appears strong, as a poll conducted last Nov. 28 by the Opinion Research group showed 62 percent of Americans plan to “buy nothing” on the day after Thanksgiving.
That's probably pretty normal. That means 38 percent actually do plan to by something on the day after Thanksgiving, which is a damn large number. I also plan to buy nothing on the day after Thanksgiving, and I didn't even know about any "Make futile statement for no reason" campaign.
Behind the irreverent, thought-provoking schemes lies a pressing message.
The provoked thoughts and the message are the same: "What a bunch of dicks."
In order to counter the increasingly economic patriotism ravaging the country, anti-consumerists have turned to Buy Nothing Day as the only true holiday left, an all-too-brief vacation from the financial institutions processing our lives.... This Friday, please stop the sad industrialization of our souls and do something priceless.
Okay, it's time someone explained to me what the problem with consumerism is. Okay, we consume. Our souls are "industrialized," whatever the hell that means. How does avoiding society make you a better person? I'm glad to have corporations think for me. It frees me up to think about more interesting things.
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