09-23-2012, 12:25 AM
(09-22-2012, 09:15 PM)Taem Wrote: Not sure where to post this, but it seems fitting for this topic considering how many of it's threads are going. Let me clarify right off the bat, this is not a bash against anything.
So anyways, my wife and I planned a family trip to Disneyworld and invited my mother and her husband, who usually comes with us on family trips. My mom suddenly became very excited at this prospect and said she couldn't wait to go so she could visit the HOLY LAND. I was like, what in the world is that? So I did some research. Forget Mickey Mouse; here is a picture of their mascot. Now I don't have to be ultra-Christian or completely Atheist find this offensive. Does anyone else here feel the commercialization of a religion (any religion) is just... wrong in some way? I personally find it a bit creepy. I never knew that place even existed before.
My mother and I have talked long talks about religion before, so I don't judge her and if this is something she is looking forward to, I won't be the one causing strife; I'm just glad she's happy and if this experience enriches her life, then that makes me a happy person for it. It still doesn't stop the place from being creepy.
Sort of. But in the big scheme of things, I still think our obsession with CF and consumerism in general is worse.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)