This is why I spend so much more time alone these days. And when I look up I see everybody else has stopped what they’re doing and pointing at me like Donald Sutherland pointing at Veronica Cartwright. And probably women in general, I mean it’s obvious. My ambivalence about cookies has suddenly been transmogrified into an obvious hatred of Girl Scouts. When I see the little stand set up I am just reminded that it’s that time of the year again.īut imagine if they started getting angry with anyone who walked by without buying some? Started calling you names, threatening you? Making you go into a hurried defense – uh, uh, I have diabetes and can’t eat sweets! Please forgive me! Here, let me buy several boxes for friends! Please don’t hurt me!
I have nothing in particular for or against Girl Scout cookies. Once again a post on Ricochet perfectly and eloquently states what I have been thinking but couldn’t put into words.Įspecially the compulsion part. Stop ’rounding up’ and explain to the person at the check counter, that you want your businesses to focus on customer value and not charity of their (not your) choosing.įail to do so, and you are just another member/victim of the conspiracy. If you want to take a step against corporate “wokeness” start demanding that the money they spend on wokeness be applied to reducing the costs of goods and services. Compulsion is like a tide whose strength is determined by the number of people who demand or who acquiesce in the process of compulsion. Surge tides, as we saw recently in southwest Florida, are particularly powerful and destructive. Tides exert pressure, tides are unreasoning and irresistible. There is a reason we use the “tide” metaphor when talking about culture and political events. So why not sign up for “woke” ideology? Or more correctly, how do you not sign up for “woke” ideology when your competitor is? And when window smashing time comes, don’t you want to be seen as being on the correct side? “Would you just like to ’round up’ today?” Businesses began marketing their virtue - not just goods and services. It might be a jar or, more easily, a button on the checkout card reader. The “bell ringers” sit outside the grocery store door during the holidays.Īnd then some stores would give you the opportunity to give at the cash register.
The hardware store sponsors the little league. It seems to have started innocently enough - businesses want to be seen in a positive light by the communities they serve. The only question is who is benefitting, how and why.
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As the saying goes in signing up for free social media: if you are not paying for something, then you are the product. And mixing that disorganization with the drug culture zeitgeist and the California social ferment of the time, the concert turned into a deadly and damaging affair.įree is never free. In fact, so disorganized was the actual tour, coupled with the youth of the band members, that concerts “just happened” without any real organizing strategy around them. Accordingly, the organizing of a free concert was more than a haphazard affair. So they were hardly in a position to put on free concerts. While superficially all rock bands of note were making money hand over fist, the tawdry history of band management between the hangers-on, managers, and venue operators, a lot of money managed to disappear, and at the time of the 1969 concert, the Rolling Stones were virtually broke. Somehow, somewhere, they needed to fit in a free concert to maintain their social standing in the rock subculture. And this is where the Rolling Stones found themselves in their 1969 American tour. And once some name bands were doing so, immense pressure was placed on remaining bands to do so.
Like today’s corporate woke culture, rock bands were putting on free concerts in the day. The Hells Angels brought their kind of order that more closely resembles disorder until it’s done.Īside from the mayhem, and the reason for this post, is the why the concert happened at all. For reasons Selvin outlines in the book, the concert was a disaster - people died, thousands were wittingly and unwittingly dosed with amphetamines and LSD. It is about the 1969 free concert held at the Altamont speedway in far east Alameda County, California. Mrs Rodin is reading Joel Selvin’s excellent book, Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day.
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