You might think that I, as a harden advocate of capitalism,
would love Christmas and the frantic shopping sprees that puts a lot of cash
into merchant pockets. That is what most people are taught, that capitalism is
about buying, selling, profits and stamping all over a sickly grandma to get
the last toy in the store. It is not.
Capitalism is about value and property rights of that value.
Although commercialism, advertising and shopping sprees may very well be part
of capitalism - definitely more so then those socialist ´paradises´ where you
need to stand in line for 10 hours to get a loaf of bread – such things would
rather be the consequence of free choices on the markets, not an inadvertently
building-block of capitalism.
However the hysterical scam we see nowadays is not just
commercialism, it is commercialism with no or very little value. What I mean by
that is that we are not getting each other the perfect gifts or hand each other
gold, instead we buy crappy useless things or toys that will fall apart long
before the next xmas hype. Sure it is still about family and great food and as
such Christmas is a fantastic holiday, but I remember that already at a very young
age I started to ask questions; why just that day? Why hand out presents that
no one wants? I think I was around 10-11 years old when I first said that we
should give each other money (if any presents are necessary) and then eat and
have fun together.
And then we also have the scam of the season itself,
something I cannot, and never could, overlook.
You know that there was this guy that was born around 25th
of Dec, born of a virgin, was impregnated by the Holy Ghost and his birth
was followed by a star in the East? This guy was of Royal decent and the birth
was adorned by 3 kings. He later became a teacher at 12, was baptized at 30 and
he had 12 disciples. He was called the light, and the son of God, and he
performed miracles such as walking on water and raising of the dead. At his
death he was crucified, was dead for 3 days and then was resurrected.
Yes, I am, of course, as you probably already figured out, talking
about the Egyptian “sun”/sky God Horus.
Jesus came a lot later and he copied this formula, just as
many other God´s did throughout the ancient world.
We can prove, scientifically and historically, that the Old
Testament was stolen almost in it’s entirely from the Sumerians. The New
Testament in turn was stolen mostly from the Egyptian religion and their book
of the dead.
But okay, let’s say that we buy the concept that God did a rectification
of earlier misconceptions and did send his Son down to us and things then,
partly or fully, occurred as described in the Bible. Even if so, according to
what most believe nowadays Jesus, if existed (probably not since there are no
historical records outside of the Bible), was born in the summer. Also it seems
that not only did the ´birth´ get moved to pagan dates around 22th, 24-25th
of December, his death was probably also moved to fit better with Jewish and
pagan traditions around Easter. It is all about marketing and perception baby.
Consequently the entire foundation of Christmas is built on
a faulty premise and it is a holiday with crappy commercialism induced by tons
of lying commercials telling us to buy things we do not need and, even
worse; to buy crappy things with no or little value.
I still like Christmas, if spent with family and with lots
of great foods and snaps and beer and Glögg (mulled wine) and more food, and of
course food. It is a good, traditional way of getting people together, but
personally I would rather see that people did so more often, all over the year.
Christmas is too much stress, too much pressure and way too much crap changing
hands for no real objective reason.
Cheers!
