like a fire

Street sermons of fire and boycott
I saw this and couldn’t help myself. The idea is just too radical and funny. The faux evangelist “preaching” that consumers not consume. These are the ideas of “Rev. Billy.”

Talen has been arrested many times and, by court order, is barred from entering any Starbucks in California. He has identified Mickey Mouse as his own personal anti-Christ and routinely launches into fire-and-brimstone diatribes about corporations using “sweat-shop labor,” busting unions and generally ruining all that is good in the world.

While I can understand our need to take Christmas seriously and that it is not the consumer driven spectacle that merchants try to make it, it seems a lot like the cries I here around October about another holiday unholiness because of its origins. How can we get something that has such “unholy” origins wrong just the same way we get Christmas wrong with its “holy” origins?

Either way, shopocalypse is in my new word list.