A Christmastime Conundrum

[sir_mcgee]

I was watching "A Christmas Story" the other day, and the scene in which Randy, the little brother, is getting bundled up sooo much by his mom and then ends up falling and not being able to get back up left me with this question. Did our mothers bundle us up on our way to school because we would fall in the snow and get to school wet otherwise, or

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[care_rose87]

actually, our mothers bundled us up because they didn't want us to get cold. I don't think they anticipated the falling....so much as the getting cold and then getting A cold.

[sir_mcgee]

But why would we need snowpants and boots? That doesn't make me warmer in a way that counters the effect of having little to no balance.

[lovable_oaf]

my mom sent me off with a cigarette and a flask..... jk. i dont care why my mom did it, but i know that she had my best intersts in mind, and therefor i am grateful and i love her

[theup_andup]

It is most likely seen from a psycoanalytic perspective as the physical manifestation of the persistent, percieved ideology that the modern world was a hard world to grow up in; the budled up child is wrapped in the only objects that can protect them from any physical reality in the external world. Quite frankly, the mother is involved in a pre-postmodern psychosis, as Harvey might describe, of a reaction to a world that is external to her. The evolving role of captial had reached its peak in the 1950s and the decidedly modern world has little to offer the mother vis-a-vis a safe haven for her progeny. Thus, when little Randy falls down into this purely natural state of helplessness in his natural surroundings, he is fully unconcious of his species being, as Marx might term it, and is fully rejecting his own universality, divorced from the commodities that he is bound to one day create

[carrie8705]

Hey Matt. You're a nerd.

[sir_mcgee]

Man, GE must be boring without anyone there.

[theup_andup]

Yes I am. Yes it is.