Monday, 21 December 2009

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  This is what I despise about Christmas. 
  
  When I had a comfortable life, it never dawned on me . . . but now . . . having lived such a life and come to understand so many circumstances through hardships and struggles, I see that we have too much already, and yet we celebrate gluttony with a festival of acquisition every year. In so many ways it takes away from what I want to teach my children - about who to become and how. Better to have nothing and want nothing, to live in the mind and wish for peace, to create peace one miracle at a time, one ripple at a time, one mind at a time. Let it begin with me . . ..
  
  
  
  Just following up - This is the time of year for this rant. I rant every year about how difficult it is to teach children what is important when the media indulges the gratuitous satisfaction of more trivial pursuits.
  
  
  
  Perspective is important in determining what is important, first of all. Second, an awareness that we are all in bondage to the almighty dollar, which is a form of abdication of our responsibility, and also a form of voluntary serfdom.
  
  
  
  Debt is the new slavery. In a capitalist society, we are encouraged to buy so that we may voluntarily assume debt. The quickest way to do this is to appeal to strong emotions. Hence, the media plays our strings.
  
  
  
  
  Christmas is classic emotional blackmail.
  
  
  
  
  In our world, consumerism has overtaken any spiritual meaning.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We've become celebrants of a beast, consumed by consumerism.
  
  
  
  
  
  We've become ants: faceless, anonymous debtors following the media directives and failing to question authority.
  
  
  
  
  
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  I've been working on an image that expresses the thought for me . . . Let me know what you think of it.
  
  
  
  

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