Sunday, October 04, 2009

Christmas Push

May I point out to you that Home Depot had all its Christmas Regalia out on display by September 25th this year? 3 months out.

Has the day become all that it was not?

He emptied himself.
He came meekly, with no pomp.
His goal: to meet our greatest spiritual need.

His day is crammed full.
It is gaudily advertised and promoted for months.
Its end: to fulfill our casual material desires.

And aren't we all distracted?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

That is the point of the marketing industry, to circumvent the logic circuit. There's fantastic book by Sigmund Freud's nephew, who is the "Father of Modern Marketing" that describes this whole process: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4612464