regarding human behavior and lights at christmas. for some people it is a social statement of status and also a source for competition with their neighbors. this is a class issue. i don’t expect everybody to get it.

my late dad was a jewish accountant and sometimes i worked with him at one of our accounts in jersey city new jersey– a garbage hauler.
a lot of the workers would borrow money from shylocks to out do each other in external house decorations. you couldn’t stop them. i guess there are worse more dangerous forms of exuberance, just much less visible.
you don’t see the rich drunk guy in the suv after the office christmas party because he has tinted windows and everybody using a cell phone swerves on the road, right?
so who is the greater social danger!