I suggest watching this video which goes over a lot of influence that happened over Christmas. It goes over the very interesting detail that very many well known "Christmas songs" were not written by Christians at all.
The commercialization of Christmas as well as other holidays is definitely something that was not very Christian in nature.
In a similar vein, Edward Bernays organized feminist marches on behalf of Lucky Strikes. Communists are always backed by international capital. Capitalism vs communism is a false dichotomy to fuel the progressive dialectic.
I've long not been a fan of Santa. I was definitely one of the ones who figured it out young. Being the smart little turd I was, I used my sense of questioning to push the envelope more an more arguing I should get better shit because why not it's just some magic elves at the North Pole that make it all anyway. I think at a certain point my parents were just forced to tell me it was a lie. Sure, I'd probably figured it out, but it sort of sunk in then to a not very good feeling that I'd been deceived.
Christmas was never the simple fun holiday I think it should be nor was it a religious holiday to me. My Christmas was the ridiculous obsessions with lavish decoration perfection instead of the enjoy sticking up your goofy looking tree as something fun to do with kids. Santa was the magic fat man who brought stuff so we can threaten you for a few months that he's going to give you crap if you don't. It's a super big deal holiday for my mother and she looks back now and wonders why we don't have the same obsession, and I don't think realizes that all the fun memories she had at Christmas time as a kid totally don't exist for us. We were never involved, just along for whatever ride we were put on like it or not. I still don't love it and much prefer Thanksgiving or some less obnoxious holiday if there's really any left.
It's funny to think of as a Communist creation with how much "consoom" it's become. Maybe one of their means to an end? Push everyone into capitalist contests until they get sick of it and cast capitalism aside? Or just to get you conditioned to being lied to?
It's kind of hard to maintain a belief in a guy that supposedly hand-makes toys at the North Pole (as shown in all the old Christmas specials) when all of those said toys had "Made in Taiwan" stamped on them. And then Berke Breathed had a wonderful sequence of Bloom County strips early on that had the elves lamenting over how the hell they were supposed to make the new electronic things modern kids were asking for ("What the hell is a BetaMax?" "I don't know, just make it!")
I have always believed that "Santa" (and his various incarnations throughout history) was simply a psychopomp, the personification of selfless giving. Some want to say that Christmas giving comes from the scene in the new testament where kings are giving another king tribute. I say it's more from Yule than from this. Think on it. Northern people facing the oncoming winter might want to make sure their fellow villagers are around when spring comes. But you're a proud people who like to give charity more than take it. So that's what those trees with the lights on were for - to lead the needy towards anonymous charity. Fucking Pratchett-level "headology". So everyone got everything they needed for the winter, and no one had to feel the shame of taking charity/being seen as needy. So you give a name to the fake all-giver and make up a story that becomes for kids eventually (all stories and satire, once they've lost their original purpose, get given to kids).
And keep in mind "Santa" used to often be accompanied by a "krampus" or Black Peter sort of character (I have never heard of krampus until recently, from fucking American Dad, actually, but he seems to have become a "thing".) - at the very least, Santa would leave coal for "the real brats". Problem is, no one ever actually got any coal (or a beating, presumably), and anyway, nowadays, a sock full of coal might be worth something. Now he just gives without regard to behaviour in this post-60s, anything goes era.
Oh, and as an addendum, because editing is so crap, I just want to add here that if we did base our gift-giving on the "Magi" story, we'd be sacrificing incense to Jesus on Christmas (or something along those lines) instead of giving each other gifts.
I suggest watching this video which goes over a lot of influence that happened over Christmas. It goes over the very interesting detail that very many well known "Christmas songs" were not written by Christians at all.
The commercialization of Christmas as well as other holidays is definitely something that was not very Christian in nature.
In a similar vein, Edward Bernays organized feminist marches on behalf of Lucky Strikes. Communists are always backed by international capital. Capitalism vs communism is a false dichotomy to fuel the progressive dialectic.
I've long not been a fan of Santa. I was definitely one of the ones who figured it out young. Being the smart little turd I was, I used my sense of questioning to push the envelope more an more arguing I should get better shit because why not it's just some magic elves at the North Pole that make it all anyway. I think at a certain point my parents were just forced to tell me it was a lie. Sure, I'd probably figured it out, but it sort of sunk in then to a not very good feeling that I'd been deceived.
Christmas was never the simple fun holiday I think it should be nor was it a religious holiday to me. My Christmas was the ridiculous obsessions with lavish decoration perfection instead of the enjoy sticking up your goofy looking tree as something fun to do with kids. Santa was the magic fat man who brought stuff so we can threaten you for a few months that he's going to give you crap if you don't. It's a super big deal holiday for my mother and she looks back now and wonders why we don't have the same obsession, and I don't think realizes that all the fun memories she had at Christmas time as a kid totally don't exist for us. We were never involved, just along for whatever ride we were put on like it or not. I still don't love it and much prefer Thanksgiving or some less obnoxious holiday if there's really any left.
It's funny to think of as a Communist creation with how much "consoom" it's become. Maybe one of their means to an end? Push everyone into capitalist contests until they get sick of it and cast capitalism aside? Or just to get you conditioned to being lied to?
That’s why the Rugrats and Adam Sandler are based. They returned the favor to their own.
It's kind of hard to maintain a belief in a guy that supposedly hand-makes toys at the North Pole (as shown in all the old Christmas specials) when all of those said toys had "Made in Taiwan" stamped on them. And then Berke Breathed had a wonderful sequence of Bloom County strips early on that had the elves lamenting over how the hell they were supposed to make the new electronic things modern kids were asking for ("What the hell is a BetaMax?" "I don't know, just make it!")
I have always believed that "Santa" (and his various incarnations throughout history) was simply a psychopomp, the personification of selfless giving. Some want to say that Christmas giving comes from the scene in the new testament where kings are giving another king tribute. I say it's more from Yule than from this. Think on it. Northern people facing the oncoming winter might want to make sure their fellow villagers are around when spring comes. But you're a proud people who like to give charity more than take it. So that's what those trees with the lights on were for - to lead the needy towards anonymous charity. Fucking Pratchett-level "headology". So everyone got everything they needed for the winter, and no one had to feel the shame of taking charity/being seen as needy. So you give a name to the fake all-giver and make up a story that becomes for kids eventually (all stories and satire, once they've lost their original purpose, get given to kids).
And keep in mind "Santa" used to often be accompanied by a "krampus" or Black Peter sort of character (I have never heard of krampus until recently, from fucking American Dad, actually, but he seems to have become a "thing".) - at the very least, Santa would leave coal for "the real brats". Problem is, no one ever actually got any coal (or a beating, presumably), and anyway, nowadays, a sock full of coal might be worth something. Now he just gives without regard to behaviour in this post-60s, anything goes era.
Oh, and as an addendum, because editing is so crap, I just want to add here that if we did base our gift-giving on the "Magi" story, we'd be sacrificing incense to Jesus on Christmas (or something along those lines) instead of giving each other gifts.
Childhood innocence implies adulthood guilt; which is what they're exploiting through children.
This is some tinfoil.
That's not even true.
St. Nicholas
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Not fat.