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sophiaserpentia ([personal profile] sophiaserpentia) wrote2003-10-21 07:39 am
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65 shopping days until Christmas!

Reading Brave New World. Man! Compulsory consumption. Mindnumbing corporate mass entertainment completely devoid of intellectual content. Widespread use or encouragment of sex and drugs to dull the mind and spirit. Job specialization and a rigid class-caste system.

I'm sure glad I don't live in THAT world. In THIS world I can freely talk about how much I despise Christmas, especially the compulsory consumerism involved with the whole season, and not feel like a freak or outcast.
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[identity profile] kumbunny.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
cannot help but feel that you are bias.

endless sex and obstacle golf!!!!

don't knock it until you try it y0

[identity profile] liminalia.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
BNW is one of that handful of books I've read over & over again. It's hard to believe it was written that long ago.

[identity profile] valdelane.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Tremendous quantities of Christmas crap...err merchandise showed up at Costco in September. Un-fucking-believable.

For a few close kidlets -- I'm Auntie to several -- I'll buy a gift in the vicinity of their birthday. Other than that, I ignore the usual expectations on bday/Christmas/Solstice gifts. If I'm inspired, I might buy/fix/make something for someone I love at some random time of year. They've learned that I think no less of them even though I'm capricious.

[identity profile] archanglrobriel.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, BNW is one of those books that I can't read comfortably anymore. When I first read it I was ten or eleven and the world looked very different. Now it hits a little close to the bone.

Ah Christmas, the whore of Babylon got nothing on you!

[identity profile] ex-rosabel-b372.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
Have you read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Something tells me you might very well enjoy it.

[identity profile] cruelly-kind.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
To paraphrase Dave barry, when you see the Christmas junk all over the place, you know it's almost Halloween.

[identity profile] novapsyche.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno... I'd like to go to a feely. ;)

[identity profile] badsede.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
I don't like Christmas either - but only the compulsory consumption and expectations of social interactions - so we can be outcasts together.

I'm more of an Easter guy anyway.
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