Crumbled
Cookies and Misfit Toys
Charlie Earl
In the land
of Forever Christmas everything is perfect. All the needs of the people are met
by a loving, caring and kindly government. No one has needs or desires because
the generous overseers provide it all. There are a few, however, who do not
bask in the glorious glow of government goodness. They are the crumbled cookies
and misfits toys who are unworthy citizens of Forever Christmas. They are the
odd people….the ones who believe that Forever Christmas is an illusion and a
corruption of the Original Christmas….which they choose to honor in their
primitive ways.
The Crumbled
Cookies once upon a time believed in the goodness of the Great Provider of
Forever Christmas. They assumed that the giving would never end, and that all
people in the land would live in harmony because their needs would be met, and
there would be no competition for status and stature. Some Crumbled Cookies
have been burned and have lost their reverence for the Great Provider…who, by
the way, always dresses in red because he is. Other Crumbled Cookies have been
broken by the Great provider because they sought to be different from the other
cookies. They watched as Forever Christmas grew big, powerful and prosperous,
but they detected little flaws and cracks during the baking process. They said
”There must be a better way,” and they sought to find it. The Great Provider
was not amused, however, and pounded them until they were too ugly for the
cookie tin.
Misfits Toys
were skeptics from the first moment they realized that the Great Provider and Forever
Christmas were mere illusionary concepts. The practical nature of Misfit Toys
led them to understand that Christmas Forever and its unending flow of goodness
and goodies required a source that earns and builds the bounty. The Toys also perceived
that the super charitable Great Provider, while claiming to give to all, was
actually nothing more than non-producing allocator. Misfit Toys understand that
Forever Christmas is a myth and the Great Provider is a con artist.
Consequently, the Misfit Toys and those who shared their opinions were banished
to the island of Cranks and Malcontents.
The lonely
island sits in the middle of Nowhere and is totally populated by those who
question the authority and goodness of the Great Provider. Once in a while a
Misfit Toy or Crumbled Cookie escapes from the island and attempts to alert the
residents of Forever Christmas about the true nature of the Great Provider and
the administrative legions of the land. The bureaucracy of Forever Christmas
and its willing accomplices in the Candyland Press loudly proclaim that Misfit
Toys and Crumbled Cookies are delusional, demented and dangerous. The gullible
residents of Forever Christmas form a posse to capture and return the escapees
to their lonely island of insignificance.
Over time
the happy contented residents of Forever Christmas begin to realize that the
gifts are smaller and the goodies are fewer than before. Off in the distance
they can hear the faint discordant notes from Nowhere, but they remember that
the growing population of Cranks and Malcontents were uncooperative and
subversive. They (the critics) were not worthy of the goods and goodies because
they dared to question the motives of the Great Provider. The leaders of
Forever Christmas issued a proclamation that declared the people of the land
were greedy and selfish, and that, henceforth, the land would be known as
Forever Misery. And the people cheered.
Charlie Earl
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