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Cognitive Dissonance
Item 1: Today at work, we’re having a Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Kwanzaa/ Festivus party for the kids. A local construction firm has donated all the food, party decorations, and toys. The kids, many of whom come to us with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, are brimming with excitement at the prospect of getting a book or a doll or maybe some Dragonball-Z cards. Since most of their parents have no money to buy them anything, these may very well be the only presents they get during the holiday season.
Item 2: Last night, my team signed a Japanese pitcher, who has never thrown a pitch in the major leagues, to a 6 year, $52 million contract. Combined with the $51 million they paid his Japanese team for the rights to negotiate with him, that brings the total investment to $103 million. To have a guy throw a baseball.
Am I the only person who weighs these two disparate facts and becomes overwhelmed with the sinking feeling that there is something deeply, seriously wrong with our priorities as a society?
