The Christmas tree is to be torn down today, I thought with a broad smile. Like most sensible people I despise Christmas. Christmas used to project ritualistic seasonal celebrations before being robbed and mutilated vigorously and repeatedly over the centuries. The concept of bringing greenery indoors to decorate certainly does not stem from Christianity. It is Pagan.
Traditionally it was once a time of peasants seeing the
bright light to thaw the mid-winter snow, they were food filled and imbibed; hazy
celebrations, divine inspirations and thoughtful reflection on the mystic solstice.
No worries of lavish gifts, nor perpetual guilt trips. With little work in the
bare fields the darkest days needed warming up.
These days? Business is always seeing an opportunity to
plunder of course! Christmas now starts around Halloween as corporate commerce
decides to carpet bomb us with advertising and persuasion. It’s been morphed into a putrid celebration of
consumer capitalism. Shops leap-frog into hyper-drive mode and the seasonal
guilt-trip is thrown onto every weary parent’s shoulders. Broke and low income families are forced into
buying over-priced presents for shrieking greedy and insatiable kids. Largely grotesque bits of plastic that will be
discarded by early January as they amble for the fashionable, the latest, and
the greatest justified in the name of Christmas. But it’s Christmas you just have to!
Three million UK families will still be paying off this Christmas
by the end of the year to drive the seasonal economy. Remember it’s the thought that counts nothing
else! Coin in! Coin in! Send hundreds of
cards to people who you don't know or can’t stand just to let them
know you haven’t forgotten about them during this wonderful time of year.
It’s tradition you must join in!
Society sold itself out to the new spiritual enlightenment; obsessive,
damaging and glutinous consumerism.
Create a lovely story, and then mutilate the meaning so
everyone doesn't feel bad wasting all of their cash.
A Merry Capitalist Christmas to you all!
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