Christmas is coming. It is a season for giving, but wait. Hard on the heels of him trashing Christmas presents - Are we so bored, so affectless, that we need to receive this junk to ignite one last spark of hedonic satisfaction? - George Monbiot has decided that having nice things "is both socially destructive and self-destructive. It smashes the happiness and peace of mind of those who succumb to it. It's associated with anxiety, depression and broken relationships."
Thanks George, I used to like my iPad, but I better burn it before the fiendish contraption plunges me into a pit of despair.
This comes after Rebecca Smithers passed on the The Wild Network's recommendation to give your kids a stick for Christmas. I have never been a great fan of Christmas, but all I can think when I read this is, 'what a bunch of smug, puritanical, miserable bastards'.
Thanks George, I used to like my iPad, but I better burn it before the fiendish contraption plunges me into a pit of despair.
This comes after Rebecca Smithers passed on the The Wild Network's recommendation to give your kids a stick for Christmas. I have never been a great fan of Christmas, but all I can think when I read this is, 'what a bunch of smug, puritanical, miserable bastards'.
3 comments:
There should be a name for this. Oh, there is! Puritanism. (The New Puritanism?)
Heh. For me the name George Monbiot was always associated with terrible anxiety that never succeeded to get expressed in his writing.
Merry Christmas, by the way, and I hope you will not ban me for saying this...
You can say whatever you like about Moonbat here, Snoopy. And a ho, ho, ho to you too.
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