11/16/202025
I began my professorelam blog in 2006. I have posted Emerson's essay on Gifts every year prior to the annual madness known as Black Friday. BF is a shopping madness which misses the point as Emerson makes, of what gifting is all about. As always, his thoughts from 18044 are so true today, I have included the short intro but click and read on.
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than
the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery, and be sold. I do not think this general
insolvency, which involves in some sort all the population, to be the reason of the difficulty
experienced at Christmas and New Year, and other times, in bestowing gifts; since it is
always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. But the impediment
lies in the choosing. If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to
somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone. Flowers and fruits are
always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
from Essays: Second Series (1844)
Arnold made a movie about this madness titled Jingle All the Way, the search for turbo man and all the accessories. All the wrong way.
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