Taking Advantage

Here's a shout out to all the stores and consumer organizations that are marketing sales and great savings to everyone in a slow economy. As if materialism wasn't enticing enough, now we have found ever new ways to make buying sexy. For those with money to burn, enjoy the cheap prices. For those scraping to get by, don't count on your neighbor to help protect you from the seduction of the American Dream to have more, supersize it and then manage it at a local storage facility.

I fight the concept that Christmas music should be played before Thanksgiving Day. And now Thanksgiving Day sales are taking place 1-2 weeks before Black Friday. Is there anything else we need to rush through to try and get ahead? Illusion I say. What are we really earning and gaining by doing things before it's time to do them? Pretty soon we'll just have one massive holiday season. There will never be an end to the festivities because we will constantly need to satisfy the desire for more.

I even witnessed this enticement to get people to recycle in a Northeastern state. They earn reward points by the weight of their recycle bins. I guess everyone has a price. The question is, will anyone be able to afford the costs to get anything good and worthwhile accomplished in this world? Or will we continue to sell out for our seductive, self-gratifying craving to be filled???