Radical in its nature, honest in its heart

This may be a source of great debate. I don't know. I have tested this idea in some circles, with mixed results. But I present it to you here, and ask that you recieve it with an open mind.

Consider the Girl Scout cookie. Now consider this: Don't buy them anymore.

More aptly, what I am asking, is that you strongly consider what it is you are buying, whether it is actually good, whether it is good for you, and whether or not you enjoy it.

The genesis of this idea was some Neo-esque realization that I have been living in a cookie-Matrix world where the thought that I didn't like GS cookies was wrong. I would think it, and like some forbidden flower, that thought was plucked from its stem. I was left to consider only the absence of a radical idea, rather than the thought itself.

Who is responsible? I don't dare say. But we live in a world where even considering that a brand of cookie is somehow inferior in quality was conditioned out of my brain.

Is that your world? Do you want it to be?

Throw aside that it might be for a good cause. Number one, there are lots of good causes, and number two, they aren't as good a cause as you might think. Truly. You need only make the shallowest of digs to find this out.

Cookie options are plentiful. Charitable groups are plentiful. This perverse amalgamation of salesmanship does not a superior cookie choice make.

Think about it: Do you really enjoy that box of thin mints, or has someone taught you that you should?

Two individual cookies from a Safeway bakery costs $1.40. One box of GS cookies is $7.00. Do the math. Buying the Safeway cookies gives you the same delicious cookie return, less calories, and $5.60 to do with as you see fit.