I had a boyfriend in high school that was into the straight
edge, hard core scene. It was there that
I learned you could “sell out” to “mainstream” music. It was cool to use this language. While I get that there was an element of not
“selling out” to big business, the comments were primarily reputation and
socially driven. We wanted to be unique
and have our own little corner of coolness.
I laugh. After all, we were in
high school.
This morning I surfed the Internet with the “Occupy
Christmas” lense and continue to be delighted with the growing number of
companies and entrepreneurs that are launching fair-trade, artisan craft
businesses and the like.
At the same time I have been hearing social media and social
circle murmurs of how it is now “trendy” to go this direction for the
holidays…negatively-ish. As if, now –
crap – more people are getting intentional about their purchasing
power…???...!!! Lets just go ahead and
put a big old BS sign on that bull. It
reminds me of high school. Praise God
for this social trend, that really does justice to our society. Jump on the bandwagon, friends.
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