Christmas Commercialism
... of Christmas cookies can you bake in a month? Who can get all their holiday shopping out of the way the fastest? It’s all about presentation and efficiency in today’s world. Businesses thrive on the holiday season. They compete for best selling items and will stop at nothing to make sure that you know you cannot live without purchasing their products for Christmas. Gifts are becoming more and more ridiculously extravagant every year. Mobs of Christmas shoppers will line up around the block at the wee hours of the morning and risk being trampled just to get their hands on the hottest new toy for their kids. You know, the one in the commercials, cheap knock-offs simply won’t do. How much you love your children may be based solely upon how big the pile of gifts under the tree is. Luckily Santa’s elves just have to head to the nearest mall these days to pick up the many items on everyone’s Christmas list; the little guys just have to watch they don’t get squished by toy-hungry mothers. If everyone in a shopping mall was asked to sum up what Christmas is about, I’m almost positive that the majority of people wouldn’t even mention the most important factor, the birth of Jesus Christ. Heck, his name is even mentioned in the word “Christmas”. Many of us forget that Christmas is a celebration of Jesus’ birth due to the propaganda of the lights and the gifts and the flying reindeer. Santa Claus has seemingly taken on Christ’s role as the “main character” of Christmas. Who’s going to argue with that? Santa brings us sleigh loads of toys and I’m pretty sure that naught...