"This should fix it"
I am really annoyed by the Extreme makeover home edition show on ABC. While generousity and caring for the hurting is a virtue, doing so to excess sends a message of salvation through materialism.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall a few weeks later. I bet the pain remains, and all of the new stuff is just stuff. The television viewers get to see the initial joy, but don't see the huge letdown after all of the new stuff leaves them empty months later.
Does anyone else feel this way? Or am I just a cold hearted jerk?