For some reason this has been on my mind for a day or so. No I'm not nostalgic to see people dangling from ropes at every town entrance, its more of the idea that once upon a time you could get enough people in a town to agree that they didn't like someone enough to take the time and effort to drag said person out to a tree an hang them. Seriously, that takes quite a bit of effort. Probably have to get at least 15 - 20 people together for it. When was the last time you saw 6 or more people agree to do anything?
I guess what I'm more looking for is a time when people could agree that they either liked something, or didn't like something. I'm not talking about serious moral gray areas here, not like should abortion be legal or anything like that. I'm talking the no brainers here, murder, rape, theft, Nazi's, Martha Stewart, you know the big evils. I swear if WWII happened tomorrow after it was all said and done and they found out everything that Hitler had done there would be someone, somewhere that would stand up and start talking about how we need to treat him fairly because we might offend the rest of the Germans. (Hitler was Austrian, yes I know, not the point, move on.)
I dunno, I guess I just wish people would actually get angry about something. Not as individuals, Light knows I see enough angry individuals everyday, but collectively. Americans get angry as a group and shit gets done, end o' friggen story. There are alot of people that say Americans are angry about things, the war, high gas prices, the fact that we celebrate Christmas and not every other freakin holiday that takes place on Dec 25. (Has anyone actually met anyone who is actually offended by the words "Merry Christmas" even if they do happen to be Jewish or something else?)
Speaking of Christmas, (here's where I'm probably going to offend someone), I really think its truthfully two different holidays. On one hand we have the Christian holiday celerating the birth of the guy who live 33 years and was then nailed to a tree. I've never understood that, of all the things Christian Denominations can't agree on, they all agree that Jesus lived 33 years, hell even the Jews can agree on that. Anyway, moving on. The second Holiday is the American holiday dealing with trees, reindeer, snowmen, a fat man in a red suit, and the Royal Rumble(TM) that is Holiday shopping. On a side note, I love black friday, its one of the only times you can see four or five grown women wrestling over a GI Joe figure, and not need a roll of dollar bills to make sure they keep going. Its my personal belief that these two holidays are two separate entities, even though they share the same name. One is a religious thing, which is all well and good, and one is an American tradition, which is also fine. If you want to celebrate the two of them together, good for you! If you only want to celebrate the religious side, or the American tradition, whatever burns your Yule log. If you want to sit at home grinch style, again, thats your choice.
The next person that tells me I can't display a Christmas tree or a nativity scene in my yard because I might offend someone....I wonder if they'd be offended if i beat them upside the head with a plastic reindeer.
