[PEN-L:1894] Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Vicious Holiday Silliness

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote: > Scrooge represented the narrowest of the grasping capitalists, the
> narrow-minded "philistine,"  at least to Dickens.

Jim Craven writes:
>Exactly. Just as the title might suggest an invitation to parody or a la
>critical thinking, maybe Scrooge in addition to being a metaphor for the
>greedy and philistine exploiter capitalist, as also not much of a hypocrite
>about it--screwed people for 365 days a year without taking a couple of days
>off for some commercialized-albeit "sacred"--event or holiday.

good point.

I was wondering: is the word "philistine"  a version of the word
"Palestine"? (That's why I put this negative term in quotation marks.)

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