Tis The Season To Be Gaudy

Bah humbug, say I! The holiday season and all saccharine mock-charm therein is thankfully at an end. Oh how I hate the season with its tedium and near-mechanised traditions. Even peoples opinion of it has become infuriatingly ambiguous. If you claim to dislike the consumerism of it all then what's your moral standpoint for the remaining 11 months of the year? Do you roam the streets lamenting the decadence of the bourgeoisie and calling for revolution? The consumerism argument doesn't hold up too well either when people say they don't care about presents but like all the parties. When I last checked endeavouring to purchase alcohol, food and clothing makes you a consumer! We are all consumerist. Stop bandying about this redundant fucking term.

Even the most fundamental appreciation of Christmas is flawed. It has been said that the birth of Christ was sometime in June not December. However the Church was said to have moved Christmas to December in order to undermine the pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice. In fact, early Christians saw the commemoration of ones birth as a pagan custom. So if even Christians themselves didn't celebrate Christmas once upon a time why should I? There's one to think about.