So I caught the tail end of a story on CNN this morning talking about the slow creep of greed by our retail industry.\u00a0 Apparently, more stores are beginning to open earlier, and earlier, and earlier on Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Or rather, that annual celebration of evil racist genocidal murders butchering hapless fowl in order to applaud their rape of a pristine and Utopian paradise.\u00a0 Given that Thanksgiving is, almost by definition, an affront to the sensitivities of our Big Politically Correct Brother, the dogmas of post modernism, and the teachings of Multi-Culturalism, I figure it has about thirty years of life left, if that.\u00a0 Oh, there will be something there.\u00a0 Something around the holiday formerly known as Thanksgiving to officially tell us it\u2019s time to shop, buy, get, and consume.\u00a0 Already the notion of giving thanks [to God] has been dispensed with, replaced by some abstract notion of thankfulness during a time of family celebrations.\u00a0 Of course family itself is being redefined as quickly as possible, and the notion of thanks almost assumes that I didn\u2019t have it coming to me in the first place.\u00a0 Having long ago dealt Easter the death blow of modernity, and cast the shepherds and wise men into the trash heap to make way for our yearly orgy of consumerist greed, I can\u2019t help but see Thanksgiving as next on the chopping block, if you\u2019ll pardon the imagery.\u00a0 At the end of the day, Darwinian Capitalism, greed without a heart and soul, is no better or safer than Communism.\u00a0 America: worshipping drugs, sex, and money.\u00a0 But the greatest of these is money.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I caught the tail end of a story on CNN this morning talking about the slow creep of greed by our retail industry.\u00a0 Apparently, more stores are beginning to open earlier, and earlier, and earlier on Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Or rather, that annual celebration of evil racist genocidal murders butchering hapless fowl in order to applaud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n