This blog post of his states just what I was thinking watching the city Christmas Parade the other night.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/11/dont-know-what.html

This illustrates exactly what my next set of Hubs and what my next tirade and focus is going to be on.
How we as consumers, average people, common folk can do working together to negate and mitigate the issues caused today by modern sensibilities that are not very sensible.