What Are The Holidays?

Christmas. A holiday long past it's association with religion. Long commercialized to the point of a pavlonian response. Buy. I'm not writing this to say that I am not getting Christmas gifts for friends and family, in fact I am equally guilty of the social reaction to Christmas as I am sure most of the world is. Still, the holiday is celebrating what it used to, and the disease of the 20th century, and all of the so called "traditions" that the rise of capitalism, materialism have imposed on us, is most apparent now. I'm not getting on a soapbox and trying to denounce capitalism. In fact, recent world history has proven that the human race is not mature enough yet to support a more enlightened social structure. We are what we are destined to be. We are what we're prepared to be.

Still, the control that corporations have over the masses at this time of the year is insane.

New Year's. Another manufactured holiday. The switching over from one year to the next is nothing major, and isn't a time for "new beginnings" or any of that nonsense. Anyone that needs to wait for a new year to make a "resolution" to change something isn't prepared to change at all. What would make January 2nd any different? Or July 7th? Or any given Thursday for that matter? Just another excuse to sell, sell, sell. To top all of that off, the pressure that is put on to make sure that you're on that "New Year's date", so you have someone to lock lips with at the stroke of midnight is immense. But really, it's just another day.

In closing...I don't want to spoil the mood of the holidays for anyone. In fact, it's swell that people are in a good mood this time of year. Just that it irks me a bit that it's mostly due to our commerial corporate overlords these days...