Today, December 25, Ebenezer Scrooge wakes after a night of visits from ghosts who teach him about the perils of hoarding money and abusing employees (The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992)
#AChristmasCarol
So, they send a ghost to warn him that he will be visited by ghosts? What? So he won't freak out when he sees ghosts? How does that make any sense? 🤔
Tis the season for #ItsAWonderfulLife & #AChristmasCarol - Christmas classics that recommend affordable housing and a living wage, respectively. And the finest goose in the whole damn window.
Today, December 24, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a number of ghosts who teach him about the perils of hoarding money, raising rents, and abusing employees (The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992)
It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh. It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew's and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room,
with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew with approving affability.
Sat down for the yearly tradition of enjoying The Muppet Christmas Carol today.
Many families will watch a version of this classic tale this year and see how one person taking the time to care about a disabled child, Tiny Tim, resulted in deeply bettering his life.
I am struck by the irony that they will do so having not socially isolated, worn masks, or done anything else to protect and support the disabled people in their own communities. That they may be watching this while immunocompromised relatives are forced to be alone over the holidays because of these acts of selfishness.
They will think they are better than Ebenezer Scrooge before he is visited by those spirits while being in dire need of a visit themselves.