On my main site, I recently posted an article “Getting Started” and led off with a Dickens quote:
| “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” -Wilkins Micawber in Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield | |||
I came across this clip which was too good to ignore, sorry if you’ve seen it, it just struck me as appropriate for this time of year. (Disclaimer – neither my wife nor 9 year old found this funny at all, I’ll let you decide for yourself.)
No, I don’t plan to make these clips a habit, not many are this good.
JOE
That advice is just *way* too complicated to understand and follow. 🙂
Well, that’s why the follow up books were needed. Too much information in one book tends to confuse people…..
Consumerism as a culture: Benjamin Barber interviewed by Bill Moyer
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12212007/watch.html
For an understanding on why this SNL skit be familiar to many, go to google video and search for “Century of the Self.” It’s a 4-part BBC production that puts the obsession with consumption into historical perspective.