From Eagle to Ugly: The Sorry Transformation of a Symbol to a Commodity
Ever since its claws left the comforts of the branch it rests on, ever since it pushed itself towards the luminous white and the unending stretch of blue, ever since it soared to blend with the sunlight and glisten in the moonbeam, ever since we’ve known it to be the symbol of our hopes and aspirations, our joys and depressions, our luck and misfortune, our faith and our allegiance, our people and our institutions, our meters and our yards, ever since we were able to pronounce it while feeling with great awe our knees touching the ground because of the majestic sight it presents, as if it is the sole entity which has been given the right to command what our society, and the relationships among men and women that keep it thriving towards greater and greater expectations, should be, ever since we thought of what our eagle represents as the ruler of us all, ever since the eagle has left its eagleness to participate in our contrived efforts to make ourselves better, ever since then that we have been doomed.
Because the eagle is just an eagle, and it would surely want for itself to remain that way. Even if it has been commercialized extending towards the manufacture of the lamest of things (sterling silver cufflinks), the eagle has been given much importance it doesn’t really need.
What the eagle need is attention to the very fact that its species is already endangered and that soon, eagles would only be present to our consciousness because of NFL and NFL football cufflinks.
Let genuine respect towards a symbol penetrate to our culture once more. Buy these Eagle’s 75th Anniversary Cufflinks and help restore dignity in its flight.
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