Wackjobs invade Disneyland

[saidthekat]

is it wrong that i kind of want to join the church? not because i agree with much that they're saying, but because i miss being a part of a choir...

[BirdMom]

Interesting if you actually read what their purpose/point of view is.

I don't know that they're whack, but I certainly agree with them that Christmas is overcommercialized and that many, many companies - including Disney - take advantage of sweatshop labor. Anyone who was at the company before Eisner/Wells came in back in early '85 would certainly remember the difference of the level of merchandising and marketing that happened after the change. Not that Walt wasn't a genius at marketing, but it was ramped up into overdrive with the advent of the E/W era.

These people had something interesting to say, and although I saw nothing about it on the news or in the papers, I'm glad their POV got out - eventually. To tell the truth, it's something I was bitching about over the weekend - I spent a solid two days baking, then we spent the next two days running all over So. Cal. to be with fractured family groups after spending a whole lot of money for a holiday that none of us really believe in, yet we're socially compelled to do so, because it's "tradition." I don't mind the lights and decorations in Winter, but why is it that in order for this country to "prosper" we all have to spend a whole lot of money on a whole lot of stuff we don't need? There's something seriously wrong with our economy if that's the model we must follow...

[Fantasmic_Freak]

As Someone said on another site, and they payed to get in! Give them money to protest for 5 minutes, then get kicked out, smart people....

[Natural Selection Fan]

I "sort of" agree with their message.

We've become such a wall to wall mall in the US it's just awful. I won't even go
to them on weekends or holiday time.

[saidthekat]

As an advertising major, I can't agree with what they're saying... I need consumerism... otherwise, i'd have no job to look forward to after being an attractions hostess at disneyland.

how sad is that?

[SRT_GB]

If you ask me, wackjobs invaded Disneyland a long time ago. But that's another discussion for another day.

[BirdMom]

If you ask me, wackjobs invaded Disneyland a long time ago. But that's another discussion for another day.

...and I believe they're called passholes, aren't they??? :twisted:

[FairyRosita]

If you ask me, wackjobs invaded Disneyland a long time ago. But that's another discussion for another day.

you mean to tell me that all those weird people are just pretending to be insane!!! gees what's next guest are actullay going to stop asking me where the firworks are going to be.

[goose]

Money doesn't make you happy. It might for a while, but it never lasts. As long as you are a balanced person and you don't base your happniess on material possessions, I don't see what the problem is.

I love to shop. (Not so much for clothes, but pretty much everything else.) But I don't do it all the time and I live within my means.

[CujoSR]

Money doesn't make you happy. It might for a while, but it never lasts. As long as you are a balanced person and you don't base your happniess on material possessions, I don't see what the problem is.

That is quite true to a point Studies have shown the money doesn't make you happier unless you make less than $50,000 a year. anything more than that will not make you happier. Source: ABC News: 20/20