“We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.” KnowsYearsLooksPersonsEndsWholeFactsEarthJesusTvsLowsSeasonsHorribleNervesEconomistProfileMaterialisticDays Of The YearBlingMaterialistic Person Author:Chris Rock
“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.” ArtRealEndsFactsForceAcceptingAudienceViolenceResistanceAbsurdNervesFacts Of LifeUnjustified Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide