Feeling the glow

This morning I bought a chocolate bunny left over from Easter for 75% off. The sucker is over 400g and cost a little over a dollar, but I was still finding myself debating wether or not it was worth it. It's funny, just the sense of perspective. Even though the thing weighs more than four times as much as a normal chocolate bar and costs only cents more, because it's sitting next to bunnies that are in the range of 25-75 cents. Eventually I realized the absurdity of the situation and bought it, along with a copy of Saved that I found in the video department for just under 9$ and a comb to replace the dozen or so I've lost. Afterwards I shoved my monstrous bunny in my backpack and went to see Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. As I was walking to the theatre form the truck I found a dollar on the ground. I love the early movie because they're so slack about security. I brought my big backpack right past several signs explicitly prohibiting such actions, not to mention the contraband rabbit.

While waiting for the movie to start an ad ran for a local lending agency that lauded the fact that they'll give you a loan regardless of your credit rating and that "you don't even need a job." The initial portion of the ad featured a man bragging to his wife about getting the loan in spite of his bad credit and jobless situation. I find it ridiculous that we're coming to rapidly accept the "something for nothing" society. It's a byproduct and reflexive offspring of the "gotta have it all" mentality. Every time something swings to an extreme, the opposite end of the spectrum breeds its own version. We see it in politics, the extremity of Rumsfeld re-bred in Michael Moore, and in religion, the bizarre antics of the Born Again's duplicated in the fatalism of Secularism. Excessive, pointless industry, the grind to have everything no matter what the cost has produced a faction of laze and indolence best represented by the lottery ticket. The New Dream is waking up to no job and a Ferrari in the driveway.