I can play that too...

Your only expressed point until now was that people's uproar over diretide was wrong, and bad.

As I stated that mindset was pointless and counterproductive. If you want people to have the right approach you don't tell them to shut up, you lead them to where they should be.

Also my only problem with your point, which I certainly did not miss, was that is was simply a negative overstated reaction to what is fundamentally the first step to that positive dialogue you say you agree with.

As far as the statism thing, like I said I call it like I see it. That mindset is pervasive and lies at the heart of working against a vocal consumer. Besides your definition is overly simplistic and refers only to the economic statist, a more accurate description would be;

The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

i.e. Those with power hold the cards and we should listen to them and do what they say since they must know better than we, and our interests should be their interests.

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Give COOKIE! is old already.

If the children spent the rest of the time working in the coal mines and delivered a percentage of their pay to the mom on a regular basis for the other food she made, and she charged them for some of the chocolate chips in the cookies, and she wasn't their only mom, and the mom liked it when the kids came over because they gave her more of the pay, and the kids didn't actually damage anything, just shouted annoyingly outside of her house, and the mom wasn't actually there to hear anything but instead some guy she paid who lives in India, and instead of being upset when the mom heard the kids outside her house were angry; she got worried that they might not come over as much, so she made them extra cookies not because she was forced to but rather to entice the kids, and recognizing your assumption that people haven't already learned that behavior at home and are merely displaying their normal reaction instead of a newly learned one is a false one... then ya maybe you are on to something.