It's a made up holiday to generate revenues in a capitalistic and materialistic society. Should we really get upset about it?
It's a made up holiday to generate revenues in a capitalistic and materialistic society. Should we really get upset about it?
I find your lack of faith...disturbing...
-Darth Vader
Private Pickle (05-11-2017)
Fun fact dads, we're by definition all $#@!s
Private Pickle (05-11-2017)
The modern Mother's Day is an American invention - it isn't a national holiday in the UK, Europe or Australia - some people give their mum cards and gifts on that day, but it isn't a big deal. The original European celebration was of the religious Mothering Sunday, where people attended a service at their Mother cathedral.
But I think it's nice to thank your mum on that day, and I always get my mum a card and a tiny gift (usually something I made for her) on Mother's Day - she seems to like that. But basically, Mother's Day has just become a big commercial con job, and when I am earning my own money, I won't buy into all that (I will continue making things for her and bringing her flowers).
Oh, I wish I were a glow worm,
for a glow worm's never glum,
'cause how can you be grumpy
when the sun shines out your bum!
I was in London for mothers day around 2013 or 14. They had lots of adverts for it. It was around a month earlier than it is here in the US.
ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Fixation on sensuality and materialism is symptomatic of an empire in decline. The crass commercialization and sexualization of an increasingly wide range of social institutions is a microcosm of that larger historical trend.
"Bread & Circuses"
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
That Skittles ad is $#@!ing creepy.
"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President