Our pursuit of material wealth is a crass, if not false, value system induced by the spell of commodity fetishism, void of more noble and worthy values.
A joyless economy, it offers little to no effect on the well-being and happiness of the individual.
As we raise a generation of those who put abundance and property above the spiritual, here are 21 stupid little idiots who climbed into claw machines to get to the toys, and got themselves stuck.
A joyless economy, it offers little to no effect on the well-being and happiness of the individual.
As we raise a generation of those who put abundance and property above the spiritual, here are 21 stupid little idiots who climbed into claw machines to get to the toys, and got themselves stuck.
21. THOSE DEAD EYES, THAT BLANK EXPRESSION. HAS CLAIMING THE MANY MINIONS MADE THE DEMON SPAWN HAPPIER, MORE CONTENT? OF COURSE IT HAS NOT.
20. THERE HE IS, AMONG THE SOFT TOYS HE COVETED SO. AND YET HIS MISERY IS PLAIN TO SEE. YOU ARE CORRECT TO LOOK SO DESOLATE, BOY. FOR YOU ARE A FOOL.
19. THIS ASS ALMOST LOOKS SURPRISED THAT THE OWNERSHIP OF ALL THE TOYS - THE PRECIOUS THINGS HE COVETED SO - MADE HIM NO HAPPIER. ARE THOSE TEARS, CHILD? YOU WILL GET NO SYMPATHY FROM US.
18. IS THIS CRAVEN WRETCH CRYING FOR HIMSELF... OR LAUGHING AT THE MADNESS THAT GRIPS MAN; THAT FRUITLESS, HOLLOW PURSUIT OF SOME FRAGILE BLISS THROUGH THE ACCUMULATION OF MATERIAL WEALTH?
17. SEE HOW THEY HOLLER AT HIM. FOR THEY KNOW THAT HE SHOULD TREASURE HIS RELATIONSHIPS, NOT POSSESSIONS. BANG ON THE GLASS, CHILDREN! JEER THE CRETIN! MOCK HIM!
16. SUCH CALM. THE CHILD REACHED HIS NIRVANA AND FOUND ENLIGHTENMENT: THE KNOWING THAT OF ALL POSSESSIONS A FRIEND IS THE MOST PRECIOUS. THERE IS YET HOPE FOR THIS ASININE GOOSE.
15. IT'S WRITTEN ALL OVER THE MORON'S FACE. HE'S ASKING HIMSELF: WHY GRAB POSSESSIONS LIKE THIEVES, OR DIVIDE THEM LIKE SOCIALISTS, WHEN YOU CAN IGNORE THEM LIKE WISE MEN?
14. "LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!" SHRIEKS THE WITLESS BUFFOON. FOR HE KNOWS NOW THAT TIME IS AT ONCE THE MOST VALUABLE AND PERISHABLE OF ALL OUR POSSESSIONS.
13. THE BOY REMAINS SO COY. SO SEEMINGLY UNFLAPPABLE. HE IS READY TO DIE AMONG THE SOFT THINGS. BUT KNOW THIS, BOY: HE WHO DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS IS STILL DEAD...
12. THE BEAR CLAW CALLED TO THE DEFICIENT IMBECILE: "COME.. STEAL MY MANY THINGS". AND ANSWER THE CALL DID SHE. AND NOW...? AND NOW SHE IS TRAPPED IN A COFFIN OF HER OWN AVARICE.
11. "I HAVE THEM! I HAVE THE MANY PRECIOUS GIFTS! I HOLD THEM IN MY HAND!" BUT DO YOU HOLD YOUR FREEDOM, CHILD? ALLOW US TO ANSWER: NO.
10. DOES THIS YELLOW-HAIRED DOLT NOT KNOW THAT OUR DESIRES AND OUR POSSESSIONS ARE THE STRONGEST FETTERS OF DESPOTISM? DOES SHE LOOK LIKE SHE KNOWS?
9. THIS BRAINLESS DRONE HAS LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON: THERE IS NO CROCK OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. WHEN THE RAINS WASH AWAY THE MATERIAL, YOU ARE LEFT WITH NOTHING BUT YOUR GREED.
8. IF EVERYONE DEMANDED PEACE INSTEAD OF CLIMBING INSIDE CRANE MACHINES TO GET TO THE PRECIOUS THINGS, THEN THERE WOULD BE PEACE. HEED THESE WORDS, YOU TRIVIAL IMP.
7. IF ONLY THIS FECKLESS STRIPLING HAD LISTENED TO THE GREAT BERTRAND RUSSELL, WHO ONCE REMARKED: "IT IS THE PREOCCUPATION WITH POSSESSIONS, MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, THAT PREVENTS US FROM LIVING FREELY AND NOBLY".
6. THE NAIVE ILLITERATE. DID HE NEVER STOP TO WONDER WHETHER THE PURSUIT OF THE MATERIAL WOULD CLOG THE HOLE IN HIS JUVENILE HEART?
5. THE YOUNG FOOL! THE NESCIENT NUMBSKULL! PERHAPS NOW SHE SHALL REALISE THAT WE PAY DEARLY FOR CHASING WHAT IS CHEAP.
4. TO BE FAIR TO THIS CHILD, HE PROBABLY MISTOOK IT FOR HIS CHEMOTHERAPY MACHINE...
3. WITH HER FACE AS BLANK AS THE SOFT DOLLS SHE HANKERED FOR, THE GIRL CHILD HAS NEVER SEEMED SO LOST. NEVER BEFORE HAS SHE POSSESSED SO LITTLE WHILE BEING SURROUNDED BY SO MUCH.
2. "BEHOLD THE FREAK!" CRY THE ONLOOKERS. "SEE THE BOY WHO THOUGHT THAT POSSESSIONS COULD BRING HIM JOY!"
1. SAYS THE MAN: "YEAH... HE'S HAVING A POO."
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