The High Price of a Christmas Card
A story that is not about Holidays, or mail
One of the earliest recollections that remains in my memories is looking at sameness and deciding it wasn’t for me. I refer to everyone doing, wearing, and saying things that were similar and predictable.
I have figured out why, but that must be explained, if at all, on some other day.
Well before the age of artificial intelligence, human beings were programmed to follow patterns of popular culture. I believe it’s because modernity decreases the thinking impulse. We are to mime our way throughout the days of this existence. What is good is what is repeated as the behaviors of the dominant social classes.