The Flying Scrolls of Logos

Underpinnings      Throughout my life, I have questioned the economics of gift giving. What aroused my interest initially was the economics of gift giving during the winter months. Why would a family risk exhausting their resources during the most barren and trepidatious times of the year? For me, it would make more sense to give gifts to members of the community during times of plenty, such as mid-summer, or the end of harvest season. In my search for an answer to the problem of "Black Friday," I have found that the term is used anachronistically; the spirit of gift giving during those long winter months has long been forgotten.      A wide array of information could (and should) be covered in our analysis of gift giving, specifically why it was traditionally done on or around the Winter Solstice. For my purposes, I will elucidate those issues which are core to my argument that America's gift giving culture is no longer rooted in the deep theological grounds that it

Binary Arguments in General      I shall attempt to be as succinct as possible in my opening statements on binary arguments. I beg your forgiveness, if I seem to trail off from time to time. As I write this essay, more and more connections to the subject matter are being made. So the matter at hand is the binary argument: specifically how it  engenders an enslaving and stupefying paradigm.       The binary argument is simple to define: It represents any argument where the individual is left fighting for their position as either a or not a . By this I am referring to a single variable, which can have either a positive or negative value, as opposed to a multiple variable system, such as if not a , then b . This is a problem because it can derail our ability to achieve goals, think creatively, and furthermore deprive us of our creative ability. How does it do this, one might ask. I shall give a short anecdote from my own experience.