Karen Strang (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} karen_strang) wrote,@ 2006-12-30 23:17:00 |
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Lights, please.
I know what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
Christmas is all about control.
It starts with the family. Christmas is the time when the most crumbling power structures of the most morally bankrupt familes get to assert themselves, perhaps for the only time of the year. If you are unfortunate enough to be burdened with family, you will be greatly pressured to spend Christmas with them. You don't like these people, you didn't ask to be born into this family, and yet you will be forced to spend anywhere up to a week in their company. And not just in their company but under their command. You will be forced to eat their disgusting food, watch their insipid TV specials, listen to their crappy music, live according to their outdated, outmoded moral codes in their stupid, smug, self-righteous communities and take it all with a big fat shit-eating smile. Christmas is not something to be celebrated, it's something to be dreaded.
It moves from the family to the church. The church invented this accursed holiday, which, under the best of circumstances, should be celebrated once, and only once, on December 21, not for two weeks between the Friday previous to Christmas through the Monday after Jan 1. This is the time of the year when that doomed, evil organization, Christianity, gets to assert their control over the western world's minds. No matter who you are and what your particular beliefs are, the Christian church beats you over the head with their stupid fucking holiday and its unholy messages for a solid month, an entire month where the church and its media outlets get to remind you that the western world is theirs, motherfucker.
And then, of course, there is retail, because for some reason the ultra-Christian holiday of Christmas, where we are supposed to be wondering with great awe about the story of the humble babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, is spent in an anxious orgy of materialism. Because gift-giving is a requirement of all citizens, regardless of creed, on Christmas one is inundated with a ton of the most useless crap ever created to sate a culture obsessed with and doomed to gorge itself on consumption for the sake of consumption.
It is a lie, an obscene frenzy of hypocrisy, shame, anxiety and pointless activity, and perhaps most disturbing, it is a week-long, world-wide conspiracy to KEEP ME FROM GETTING WORK DONE.
And that's what's Christmas is all about.
I know what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
Christmas is all about control.
It starts with the family. Christmas is the time when the most crumbling power structures of the most morally bankrupt familes get to assert themselves, perhaps for the only time of the year. If you are unfortunate enough to be burdened with family, you will be greatly pressured to spend Christmas with them. You don't like these people, you didn't ask to be born into this family, and yet you will be forced to spend anywhere up to a week in their company. And not just in their company but under their command. You will be forced to eat their disgusting food, watch their insipid TV specials, listen to their crappy music, live according to their outdated, outmoded moral codes in their stupid, smug, self-righteous communities and take it all with a big fat shit-eating smile. Christmas is not something to be celebrated, it's something to be dreaded.
It moves from the family to the church. The church invented this accursed holiday, which, under the best of circumstances, should be celebrated once, and only once, on December 21, not for two weeks between the Friday previous to Christmas through the Monday after Jan 1. This is the time of the year when that doomed, evil organization, Christianity, gets to assert their control over the western world's minds. No matter who you are and what your particular beliefs are, the Christian church beats you over the head with their stupid fucking holiday and its unholy messages for a solid month, an entire month where the church and its media outlets get to remind you that the western world is theirs, motherfucker.
And then, of course, there is retail, because for some reason the ultra-Christian holiday of Christmas, where we are supposed to be wondering with great awe about the story of the humble babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, is spent in an anxious orgy of materialism. Because gift-giving is a requirement of all citizens, regardless of creed, on Christmas one is inundated with a ton of the most useless crap ever created to sate a culture obsessed with and doomed to gorge itself on consumption for the sake of consumption.
It is a lie, an obscene frenzy of hypocrisy, shame, anxiety and pointless activity, and perhaps most disturbing, it is a week-long, world-wide conspiracy to KEEP ME FROM GETTING WORK DONE.
And that's what's Christmas is all about.
