Posted on 12/26/2015 2:09:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Hello there, average American Christmas reveler. Things are looking good for the homestretch: You've got your tree all set, perhaps a few lights strung up around the yard to show the neighbors that life's good, and you're dealing with mild, but totally manageable anxiety about whether Amazon's going to pull through for you today or not. You've got a lot of good things on your plate. With all this #gratitude, it seems like an appropriate time for a quick reminder that beneath the veneer of holiday goodness, we're all still horrible, gluttonous people.
Exhibit A: Your Christmas Lights. (via the Center for Global Development).....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I tire of the snarky and condescending tone of most writers; and this one is a typical example.
Just think how many people could be fed for a year for the cost of just one of Obama’s vacations.
The power company generates electricity...they offer the electricity for sale...I buy the electricity...I use the electricity.
The generators spin and generate the electricity whether I buy/use it, or not.
I guess I should cover the little holes in all my outlets so the electricity won’t leak out all over the floor.
The four room house I grew up in had a wire dangling from the center of the ceiling in each room, each powering a 40 watt bulb...two, screw-in glass fuses carried the whole house.
We “evolved” from those days, the emerging countries can “evolve” too.
The USA can’t continue to be the Santa Claus and policemen for the entire world.
What’s funny (in the utter pathetic/disgusting sense of ‘funny’) is that they genuinely see no conflict in their positions and their actions. Art and music alike are purely recreational activities. We are richer for them, but in a SHTF scenario, we would not die suddenly for their absence.
The hypocrisy of liberals in the creative arts is stunning. I have a nice music production rig but it pales to some of those bragged on by these gaia warrior/SJW types. ALL of it uses electricity. And some uses a LOT. Tube amps and such.
And it is often the guys with the biggest power suckers that bitch and preach the ‘save da’ EARF!’ thing the loudest. Then there’s the exotic woods used in stringed instruments, or just wood period. Someone killed several trees so they could have their toy. Or mined metal/minerals.
I would imagine the art (painting/sculpting etc) world is the same with animal hair brushes, paint pigment components and simply keeping the studio at a workable temp. The mere existence of a studio is pure excess because it consumes resource to build, denying a home for some poor tribal African!
Cages. All of them.
And the implication is that by using more than “our fair share,” we’re somehow depriving less advanced countries of ... something. We generate the electricity. We pay for it. But it’s somehow wrong for us to use it because someone somewhere has less.
Halloween is more lit with lights up in my community than Christmas. Where’s the outrage?
and gladly so....
Slate Lies.
Slate really sucks.
They have been for the last 7 years.
The rest of the world needs to learn to be more successful and less whiney.
So early and already a great nomination for Post Of The Day.
Here's a flash for you bucko, if you feel that way...turn your lights off.
What is actually happening however is that the United States is a very blessed nation.
And guess what?
One of the principle reasons we are so blessed is because a majority of people in this country still not only celebrate Christmas, but because they also try and incorporate the principles that it represents into their life.
Deep down inside THAT is what really drives the progressives and liberal left crazy, and leads them to spread propaganda and false narratives (ie. lies) like this which creates useful idiots like this person who believe and then spout this nonsense.
Elloitt move to the DPRK
The number the article uses is 6.6 billion kilowatt-hours, or about 22 kilowatt-hours per person. That is $2.42 for each of us that has the libs’ panties in a knot.
I suppose when they were naming their Cobol, actually calling it what it was must have been seen as anti-productive. It rightfully should be called Slant, not Slate.
I was watching Nixon on TV when he banned Xmas lights. Folks just put them up anyway.
Just think of how we Americans can create jobs in Ethiopia by doing that. They can be hired to sort through all those strings of lights that don't work to find the one burnt out bulb on each that's the cause!
I refuse to click on a Slate link.
I suggest the author relocate to any of the third world hell holes with limited electricity, then check back with us in Christmas 2035.
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