December 26, 2000

  • "Retail frenzy may be too late..." is the Money headlines at USAToday online, "It seems clear that cash registers weren't ringing up great holiday cheer for merchants," the story continues. Too late for what? To coopt the real Christmas spirit? To drive seasonal participants economically beyond some shadow border of micro-discernible bancruptcy? Where, anymore, is the joy in moderation and sense of well-being in current contentments? In my book, a "frenzy" is always too late: it is the dust that some revolt of the masses (a la Ortega y Gasset) licks after the limousine of life has already peeled-out of the roadside rest stop and headed down the highway to fortune's next appointment.

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