Perhaps the crime isn't that cards are prepackaged but that they are false--the impersonal disguised as the personal, a mere pretense of affection, like corporate gift-giving, particularly when the company passes out prostitutes who, I'm told by corporate insiders, only pretend to like you.
Gift cards are terribly impersonal despite being widely given as presents.
mnli hypothesis: Gift cards are terribly impersonal despite being widely given as presents. premise: Perhaps the crime isn't that cards are prepackaged but that they are false--the impersonal disguised as the personal, a mere pretense of affection, like corporate gift-giving, particularly when the company passes out prostitutes who, I'm told by corporate insiders, only pretend to like you.