Xmas

Hello!

               So today is the 23^rd of December, and we’re all counting down the days until Christmas. Well, all of us except our Jewish friends are. And I suppose all of the other people that don’t celebrate Christmas. So I guess I have to say that a select few people are counting down the days until Christmas. That really just puts a damper on my whole thought process. I’ll just blunder on into the actual topic of discussion.

As Christmas approaches I am both excited and appalled, each in equal amounts. On the one side, ‘tis the season and all that. On the other, we have capitalism to the point where it’s almost sickening.

This holiday season might be the worst I’ve ever seen, or maybe I’m just now old enough to realize how different it is from what it “should be.” The season is no longer driven by the “spirit of giving.” It is no longer enough to simply be with your family and enjoy it, we’re also expected to give everyone gifts, and this is driven home by the wonderfully large amount of sales that stores have when the snows start to fall. These sales just encourage us to buy more, too. These large retail stores pump us for cash so hard during this season that it has become more than 30%  more profitable than all the other seasons combined. That’s kind of gross.

So during this season, I challenge all of the readers of this blog post to do a few things. Firstly, don’t fall into this giant pit of despair that is the over-capitalized American society. By all means, buy your family presents, I certainly will. But don’t go out and buy everything that’s on sale. You’re just feeding the corporations. I’m also not encouraging you to set stuff on fire, start any fight clubs, or blow up a credit card company. If you got the “Fight Club” reference, you deserve a high five. Now go pick a fight with a random person on the street, and lose. The second thing that you should do this season is enjoy your family. You don’t got ‘em forever, folks. So enjoy them while they last. Get off your computer and go spend time with your mother/father/grandfather/uncle/cousin/second cousin/other relations. It’ll make their day (possibly, unless you’re a major dick.) and you’ll be doing something nice. So go out and have fun. Aw yayuh.