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I did not participate in Christmas last year at all. This year I will happily attend family get-togethers and holiday events. However, I will NOT model for my little girl the behavior of shopping, spending, and going in to debt out of societal obligation.

This holiday is a farce.Once it was some heathen or pagan practice, hijacked by Romans to become Saturnalia, then hijacked by Christians to become Christmas, now hijacked by strict ultra-Capitalists to become the bullshit it is today.

Spend! Spend! Spend!It's torn families apart; pitted cousin against cousin in my own, all because of differences in how to exchange gifts. Money. That's all this "holy day" is about. I wish it were more like Thanksgiving where people come together to enjoy one another's company, but even that day has now been hijacked by Black Friday to become Black Thursday Evening.

Fuck you, Santa Claus. On Christmas morning, somewhere a pissant greedy little prick will wake up to mountains of presents from Santa despite him or her being the perfect example of who should be on the "Naughty List". Simultaneously, another little boy or girl who has been good and nice and met all of Santa's requirements for staying on his good side will wake up to absolutely nothing.

It's a sham.Family members of mine will drill deeper into debt this December due to this fucked up obligation to spend money they absolutely do not have. It sickens me. I'm not better than anyone. I'm simply not impressed by materialism or its excesses.

What does impress me personally are those who can live on less and simply be content; wanting what they've already got rather than getting everything they want.

It's an empty, Wall Street-driven event that imposes guilt and shame on the less fortunate for not being able to buy more, if anything at all. And two months later, we're all expected to buy more shit for the next farce called Valentine's Day.

Welcome to America.

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I did not participate in Christmas last year at all. This year I will happily attend family get-togethers and holiday events. However, I will NOT model for my little girl the behavior of shopping, spending, and going in to debt out of societal obligation.

This holiday is a farce.Once it was some heathen or pagan practice, hijacked by Romans to become Saturnalia, then hijacked by Christians to become Christmas, now hijacked by strict ultra-Capitalists to become the bullshit it is today.

Spend! Spend! Spend!It's torn families apart; pitted cousin against cousin in my own, all because of differences in how to exchange gifts. Money. That's all this "holy day" is about. I wish it were more like Thanksgiving where people come together to enjoy one another's company, but even that day has now been hijacked by Black Friday to become Black Thursday Evening.

Fuck you, Santa Claus. On Christmas morning, somewhere a pissant greedy little prick will wake up to mountains of presents from Santa despite him or her being the perfect example of who should be on the "Naughty List". Simultaneously, another little boy or girl who has been good and nice and met all of Santa's requirements for staying on his good side will wake up to absolutely nothing.

It's a sham.Family members of mine will drill deeper into debt this December due to this fucked up obligation to spend money they absolutely do not have. It sickens me. I'm not better than anyone. I'm simply not impressed by materialism or its excesses.

What does impress me personally are those who can live on less and simply be content; wanting what they've already got rather than getting everything they want.

It's an empty, Wall Street-driven event that imposes guilt and shame on the less fortunate for not being able to buy more, if anything at all. And two months later, we're all expected to buy more shit for the next farce called Valentine's Day.

Welcome to America.