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November 16, 2004
The weather outside is frightful
There's a time and a place for everything (maybe), but there is no place for Christmas before Thanksgiving.
That sounds like an odd thing to say, but Starbucks has already launched into their Christmas blitz. Anecdotally in the office, Walmart has also started theirs, even before Hallowe'en. That just strikes me as wrong.
Is this what Christmas has come to? Marketing foreplay that lasts two months? What the hell is Christmas promotion doing before Black Friday? Did Thanksgiving finally get the shaft? Instead of turkeys and cornucopias and Pilgrims, are we doomed to get another month of Santa and snowmen and nightmare decorations for the red/green colour blind instead?
Over the last several years, I think I've been developing a greater ire about the whole industry of Christmas, which seems to spoil the entire spirit of Christmas with its gross displays of commercialism and materialism.
It's sad. It's disappointing.
Am I'm lost. I don't know what to do about it. I want to be happy during this time of year--hell, any time of year--but having materialism crammed down my throat lilke a Holmsian dickjob makes me gag.
Posted by KinCross at November 16, 2004 09:29 AM