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A Merry Pascalian Christmas!

TylerR Mon, 12/19/16 8:30 pm
Society & Culture
Carl Trueman
Commercialism
Blaise Pascal

Carl Trueman: Perhaps the irony of Christmas is that, in its current form, it has become one of the focal points of the culture of distraction, which Pascal so ably critiqued. It is all about consumption, which is just another form of distraction and diversion.

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Mon, 12/19/16 3:52 pm

Re: " It is all about consumption"

Re: ” It is all about consumption”

Make it “NOT about consumption”

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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-1912-thousands-of-women-in-new-…

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