Historic Overkill

United States has always been at the forefront of capitalism and a quintessential example of a Capitalist country. It has gone so overboard with the concept of free market economy that in order to promote tourism(read to make money),it has termed every road, scenic route, river, building, lane and even patio as HISTORIC. Any passing reference to any object more than X years old has been deftly converted to an object of attraction. To me, this country has made a fun of the word "Historic" by attributing this term to any inanimate object possible. Some can argue that being a capitalist country,US only understands the meaning of the word 'capital' and the disparate ways and means to generate it. And, I don't disagree. US, as a country has taken the concept of "selling" to a whole new level - It can even sell a "condom to a bobbitized man". Now thats food for thought!!!

US hasn't even spared the dead. Lizzie Andrew Borden was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother in Massachusetts. Today, anyone can rent the haunted house for a night, sleep on the same bed where her mother was slaughtered and relax on the same couch where her father was bludgeoned to death.

But, what seems strange to me is the fact that people shell out boatloads of money in spite of being aware that they are being duped. Now thats what I call as subliminal advertising. Any country who wants to learn about pure-play Capitalism should take a leaf out of US's book and for people like me who detests the overuse of any word - to the extent where it looses its own meaning - better start looking somewhere else.