20th December 1997
Merry bloody Christmas...
Okay. The story is well known. Girl walking along a dark road in a dark night back in the days when Romans were conquering in a way others only dream of. She meets a "Grey" who shows her the concepts of artificial insemination. Three wise men were experimenting with making the stars bigger using broken PEPSI bottles. They see the spaceship take off and human curiosity sets them off in the direction of the bright flash in the sky. Hey presto, the girl becomes the first pregnant virgin in recorded history. By the time she has the baby, the three wise men have reached the site. Somebody speaks to an angel (they gave the painkillers to the wrong person) and the baby is born. Now being a bit pretentious - this was centuries before the earth was both flat and the centre of the universe after all - the three wise men are stumped by a pregnant virgin. So they say it must be the son of God...
Or something like that.
What does that have to do with deforestation and pine trees?
What does that have to do with "fairy lights"?
What does that have to do with snow?
What does that have to do with santa claus?
Teletubbies dolls, jingle bells and all manner of other things.
For many the closest they get to Christmas is the angel on top of the tree. It
is a time for getting presents and getting presents and wailing about how we
wanted something with a long unpronouncable name and not a pair of socks.
A time for showing the world what greedy commercialistically-driven bastards
we all are.
Some people are not giving presents. They are waiting until the sales so they
can get the same stuff cheap.
But, hey, it's almost the twenty first century. Who cares about God and religion? Christmas is just another excuse to take time off work, get caught up in gross self-indulgance and get pissed as well...
They are too stupid to realise they are being led around like sheep. Your kid
wants a "thing" for Christmas. Everybody else at school is getting
one and your kid will be a definite loser if s/he doesn't have one.
The manufacturers have shortages and stock supply problems which make them
all the more a commodity.
So you, the parent, run around trying to find some bloody waste-of-space
piece of plastic because it will make your kid a non-loser and because the
concept of feelings and morals are pretty much lost on us all. You simply
have get one.
You could hand him the keys to a yellow Ferarri and he'd still be a loser
because he doesn't have a "thing" and the marketing droids won't
allow for an eight year old kid driving a Ferarri to be just a little bit
cooler than a bunch of whining brats with their "thing"s.
So the question you have to think about. Maybe your kid could be the
intelligent one who realises that owning a "thing" is simply a
marketing ploy aimed at brainwashed morons?
Of course not. No have = loser. That's all that is allowed. And there isn't
much that anybody can do about it except move into the country and stay as far
from the media as you possibly can...
And after all of that, some people actually wonder what happened to
"Christmas Cheer"...