Halloween was on a Thursday and Friday's paper came stuffed with flyers for xmas stuff. I think things have gotten way out of hand when it comes to commercialization. Which is what I hate most about the season.
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It's what a free market does. (Not that I know of any better system, given our species' assortment of behavioral tendencies.)
- Find a thing that people like.
- Latch onto it until everything enjoyable has been siphoned out or destroyed.
- People don't like it anymore, or find something better.
- Move on to that new thing.
Google: Once a decent search engine, now it's degraded into a giant shopping site and ad server, often serving up sites that are nothing but Google ads and links to
other sites.
And they acquired Doubleclick, intentionally, and
didn't immediately incinerate all of their buildings and assets.
The Internet itself: So much of it is being pushed toward full commercialized, and some of it is at the point of being creepy. Imagine if you went shopping, and at the first store a greeter shows up when you walk in. Then he quietly follows you around, keeping notes on what you look at, what you put back, what you buy, and how long you linger in certain aisles. Then he's also at the next store, still just watching over your shoulder.
November isn't too bad. What annoys me is seeing Christmas and Halloween decorations side by side in August.
I had similar thoughts on the timing, such as this thread: It's November. Shouldn't this thread have shown up more than a month ago?
Retailers start stocking Christmas merchandise in their in-store warehouses at least as soon as August.
