Yes Xmas is all very commercial. I think a nice well thought out card with a few lines says more…just as long as everyone else buys me wildly expensive presents of course.
True to form the Xmas Bunny just in time for fathers day is once again upon us
plugging the festive season in October. Of course Xmas day itself is approximately
two whole months away yet we get this tinsel and happiness right on cue earlier and
earlier in the year.
Now I have no real problem with Xmas (call it “coping with Family Day” myself) and
I’m not getting all “Bah Humbuggy”, but Mid October is hardly the start of the “Festive
Season”. It may be the start of the “please buy more and put it on Your credit cards, its
ok ‘cos its for Xmas” season, but that’s about it.
Now I have a solution to this dilemma, we could just agree every day is Xmas 365 days
a year (here at Radio Sydney we have a channel like that!). Everyone would of course
need plastic trees that could weather the year and we’d all have to scale down the
presents we give as on a per day basis it would get very expensive. However despite
these few minor problems with a few Prozac’s in everyone’s morning coffee every day
could be Xmas morning.
Santa would lose the weight with all the extra lugging and put on more staff so it would
create more jobs, all in all a win win. The only downside of course would be, with every
day Xmas day, and Xmas day a national holiday, not a lot of work would actually get
done. Still as its Xmas the mountains of rat-
That could feed an Ethiopian family for a year etc. would not matter with sanitation
engineers enjoying Xmas at home with their families. After all its the season of
happiness and the decline of Western civilization is a minor thing to be worrying about
when your opening presents and singing Xmas carols. When the power goes off we
could just use candles..