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Submitted by Jerimee on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 9:37pm.
Some dude name Chris Seay would like to have a word with you:
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Sad, he lost me at
makeup and perfume. Funny how he chooses two consumer products typically used by women to illustrate waste. Kinda lost credibility with me there.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
makeup and perfume
Yeah I hear you. It's cool that you mentioned that, because as I was driving to work I was actually thinking about posting something apologetic about that.
Men are as much to blame for the makeup and perfume as women. I doubt a woman with a buzz cut is as competitive in a job interview as a man is.
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Thomas Jefferson said you always get the rulers you deserve.
hahahaha.......buzz cut on me. :)
The point is, most of us are shameless consumers. I confess. I might not do the perfume and makeup, but we own large numbers of computers, ipods, television sets, speaker systems, printers, video game systems, etc. Get the picture?
Our Christmas gifts to the adults on our list are donations to charity. We do this at birthdays as well. That's all well and good, but we aren't really making any sacrifices to help others. I'll be the first to say that I know I don't do enough to help those in need and I think that was the point of the video. I probably could have discussed that instead of picking on the hint of misogyny, but then I wouldn't have been doing my job for my two daughters. :)
No doubt.
And there is no doubt that the distribution of wealth is staggeringly unequal in our world. It should give us all pause, whether or not we follow the same faith as the man in the video.
I think the message would have been more effective if he had chosen to go with the final few seconds - which I think were probably his first thoughts. He spent $17 for refreshments at a ballgame and realized that the money he spent there could supply medicine for children who were dying of malaria in Malawi. I thought the stats about makeup and perfume were totally gratuitous. He was sitting at a baseball game - why not talk about the astronomic profits of Major League Baseball? I'm afraid by singling out make up and perfume, which as Betsy pointed out, are two products normally used by women, and not normally associated with baseball, I think a bit of veiled misogyny shows.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
veiled misogyny
I suspect we'd be more forgiving of the "veiled misogyny" if this wasn't a faith based appeal, but having read your comment and Betsy's I guess you're right; message is kind of spoiled by the unfortunate examples.
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Thomas Jefferson said you always get the rulers you deserve.
Faith based.
I actually thought about that, and watched the clip several times to be sure that I wasn't doing a hair-trigger response that religious appeals sometimes bring from me. It really was the perfume and make-up, and not the "faith-based appeal". (For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with faith based appeals or messages, just mixing religion and government.)
I think it would have been an extremely effective appeal to people of all faiths if he had chosen to use just the final few seconds of his tape, which were obviously (to me) the first few seconds taped. (The baseball arena is full at the end, for example, where in the rest of the tape, it is not, and people in the background can be seen leaving.)
His message, though rings loud and clear: we are wealthy beyond our wildest dreams, and that we are called upon to take care of each other. It doesn't matter to me where the call comes from, I believe it is imperative.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
we are wealthy beyond our wildest dreams
Ignoring the moral obligations implicit in the statement, imagine how much happier many Americans would be if we could appreciate that we are wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of our forefathers.
We have invented so many solutions to so many persistent problems, we ought not to be discouraged by the problems that still plague us.
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Thomas Jefferson said you always get the rulers you deserve.