Every year, stoking your guilt with their latest phony hot items and
newest big sellers
Another
month and, What do you know? Yet another Merchant’s Holiday has
arrived
They’ve
got jingles and decorations, gifts and zesty-sweet, factory-produced
treats
For
they must perpetually increase an artificial demand simply to stay in
business
They
have special offers, items on sale, deep discounts and great
promotions
They
try to pump you full of shame and guilt should you dare not to spend
You
can still buy on credit - even if there is no income behind your card
Your
very humanity can be defined by simply following their purchasing
cycles
$XMAS,
birthdays, anniversaries, valentine’s day and others which come and
go
Beautiful
people in expensive advertisements meant to part you from your cash
Since
you love them, For the family, Just for
her, Thinking of you – And buying too much
Co-opting
christianity, playing on emotions and performing a greedy mass
hypnosis
It’s
on sale, Don’t you love them, Time’s running
out. Are you some cold, cheap loser?
Halloween,
thanksgiving, easter and Mother’s Day all beckon with their own
tailored ads
The
advertising pimps purify and hyperbolize them and parade them in
front of your noses
For mother, Don’t forget Dad!,
Because they love you. Buy now or forget the
Happily-Ever-After
Buy
this to avoid some unspoken punishment of guilt and loss of humanity
We
were late again with the rent since it was little Timmy’s birthday
this month
The
kids are dosed with our ads and screaming for it - Won’t you make
them happy?
Show
her that you still love her by taking on a few more years of easy,
over-budget payments
You
can feel good about your debt because you didn’t buy any of this
for yourself
The
Chinese slave factories are being geared up for the anticipated phony
holiday demand
And
after every holiday the garbage truck takes away unused things that
you could not afford
Perversely
enough, Buyer’s Satisfaction lasts something like maybe almost 10
minutes
And
then that gnawing emptiness returns and you must quickly focus on
something else
You
know you don’t really need it and you can’t afford it, But It’s
‘Christmas’
You
struggle with your current car payments as you salivate over their
latest models
Their
survival and your jobs are tightly bound to leveraged
over-consumption
Desperately
they flog you with their absurdly creative and expensive fantasies
Their
stock prices and bonuses dependent on increases in year over year
sales
Locked
in a deadly embrace, we dance blindly together towards an unnecessary
credit abyss
They’re
pumping tired Christmas carols down your throat for 2 months every
year
You
must buy big for birthdays and anniversaries or you are forgoing
human relationships
Get
with the program or face the fact that you’re an inhuman scrooge
heading to hell
And
don’t you dare coldly dwell on the fact it’s all invented by
marketeers for salesmen & CEOs
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