RWHN: From the Depths vol. 2 #3: On Focus

[AFK]

Do you know what one of the biggest problems around this rock is?  It,Äôs Focus.  I swear, I think the majority of the human race is borderline ADHD and if not then they are chronically gullible.  A couple of examples stick out in my mind.

Example #1:  The Democratic Mid-Term Election Victory

Okay, here,Äôs the thing.  The media don,Äôt really think this is going to change anything in the government, much less your own individual life.  It,Äôs a good news story when the never-ending bone and flesh pile in Iraq is becoming pass?©.  And every once in awhile they try to trot out the Israel vs. Palestine story line but most Americans anyway can,Äôt follow that.  So, the media figure this will make decent enough headlines for the next couple of months.

But let,Äôs get to the brass tax, yup soon there will be one.  The reality is that what largely separates the Democrats and the Republicans is what Christmas Party they go to.  Sure, you have your Ted Kennedys and Howard Deans for the Dems and then you have your Trent Lotts and Lindsey Grahams for the Republicans but the bulk of them aren,Äôt really that dissimilar.  They are largely only for or against whatever it is they think will keep them their jobs. 

But, I digress.  The point here is that so many people are so willing to eat this stuff up.  To swallow the hook and like it.  To savor the shiny, pointy barb as it perforates the esophagus.  Because, they believe it to be truth.  To think otherwise would be un-American or, just plain kooky.  No one wants to appear to be a kook.  Those people are the ones to not be trusted. 

Example #2:  ,ÄúLet,Äôs go live to Bob with the weather who is standing in the town square next to the Chris- er I mean Holiday Tree.,Äù

Let,Äôs be perfectly clear, I am no soldier for the Christian Conservative Cause, but I have to ask the liberals, why are you wasting so much time on a stupid Christmas Tree??? Does it really offend someone to call it a Christmas Tree, and if so why the hell should we care?  Are we going to start to calling the ,ÄúStar of David,Äù the Holiday 6-Pointed Shape Thingy?  Or how about, the ,ÄúHoliday Candle Holder?,Äù

Really, it doesn,Äôt even make any sense to argue over it because it is what it is.  It,Äôs a Christmas tree.  Really folks, stop worrying about whether or not to say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays.  Worry more about whether or not your Christmas Tree is going to be glowing next year without lights.  Worry more about whether or not you are going to be able to board a plane without having a TSA-agent giving you a colonoscopy.  Worry about whether or not you are going to having ocean-side property in Vermont.  Focus people, Focus!!!

I dunno about the rest of you but I get tired of waking up every morning amongst these short-sided gullible bliss-ninnies!!!  I walk down the street, I walk in the grocery store, I look and think, ,ÄúMan, I,Äôm one of them?,Äù  I wonder if penquins go through this.  Some days it is just too much.  I dunno, if I were St. Peter, working for God,Äôs SuperMart I,Äôd be making the following page: 

,ÄúClean-up on aisle 3!,Äù

[Sepia]

I love the wrapup.

[Triple Zero]

damn. holiday tree? wtf

with freedom fries and all that other crap, what did orwell call it again, n00bspeak or something?

[East Coast Hustle]

official seal of approval --->

[Jenne]

I haven't heard the "holiday tree" shit...but I'm not surprised.  There is WAY more interest in not losing customers/viewers by "offending" them with Christ in the Christ-mass...than there is informing them about fossil fuels, pollution, global warming and international politix gone awry.

Almighty $ ftw.

[Cain]

Fox always overplays this.  Read fair.org and several other sites for the scoop on that.  "The War Against Christmas" is just another manifestation of the monotheist persecution complex that arises from a worldview radically divorced from reality.

[Jenne]

Yeah, I read about that.  How they decry WalMart and other "box stores" saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." 

However, I didn't hear about "holiday tree."  That is fucking hilarious.  I think I'll call it that from now on, just to fuck with people.

[AFK]

The other non-Fox media outlets will trot out the whole Holiday/Christmas dilemma too.  Not as often or as fervently as Fox mind you, but they'll get their fair run at it too.  Gotta continue the shell game after all. 

[Thurnez Isa]

jihad on Christmas

[P3nT4gR4m]

THE BABY JESUS ORDERS YOU TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY!!!

Be a good consumer and buy lots. Get fucked up on as many chemicals as you can lay your hands on and drive fast cars.

[AFK]

THE BABY JESUS ORDERS YOU TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY!!!

Be a good consumer and buy lots. Get fucked up on as many chemicals as you can lay your hands on and drive fast cars.

Oh, so you've met Uncle Tony?