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16 years ago
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Happy Valentines Day! Or, if you happen not to have 'someone special', then: Happy Singles Awareness Day!
Aren't you fed up with just how over-commercialized all the holidays have become? How everywhere you turn, stores are screaming out the next holiday, even before the current event has even finished? I mean, it wasn't even near Halloween, when I saw stores starting to put out Christmas items on display, ready for the 'holiday rush'. This makes me sick.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for celebrating the holidays, but not to such a grand scale that mass-media and the huge conglomerate companies want us to celebrate. They've taken Religious and Pagan festivals and ceremonies, filled them with over-cute characters, colors and cards/candies/tv shows/movies/lights up the wazoo, and shove them down our throat.
What happened to the nice old affairs? Where Valentines Day was a small event between lovers. Easter a celebration of the Spring Equinox, as well as that of the supposed resurrection. Halloween being a somber rite to ward away evil spirits and the dead. Christmas.... Originally a nice Pagan festival celebrating the Winter Solstice, and planning for new hardy crops in the spring.
The huge companies have forgotten the roots of the holidays. Too blinded by their own creations to see what they have missed, or destroyed.
What do you think of when you hear the words: Santa Claus?
A man in a red suit, white trimming, black boots, big white beard and a hat?
Yup. The image we all know, created by the Coca Cola Company to boost sales of their drink. Sure, he was based on older folk characters like Cinter Clas, Perre Noel, among others. Taken, twisted, and shoved into the current incarnation.
We all have forgotten the roots of the holidays, the true spirit of the events we take for granted. Not to mention how "politically correct' the government wishes us to be, as to not offend anyone else. I wish we could just go back to the times where the events truly meant something. Get rid of all the glitz and glamor that is obscuring the origins and truth on the holidays.
Aren't you fed up with just how over-commercialized all the holidays have become? How everywhere you turn, stores are screaming out the next holiday, even before the current event has even finished? I mean, it wasn't even near Halloween, when I saw stores starting to put out Christmas items on display, ready for the 'holiday rush'. This makes me sick.
Don't get me wrong, I am all for celebrating the holidays, but not to such a grand scale that mass-media and the huge conglomerate companies want us to celebrate. They've taken Religious and Pagan festivals and ceremonies, filled them with over-cute characters, colors and cards/candies/tv shows/movies/lights up the wazoo, and shove them down our throat.
What happened to the nice old affairs? Where Valentines Day was a small event between lovers. Easter a celebration of the Spring Equinox, as well as that of the supposed resurrection. Halloween being a somber rite to ward away evil spirits and the dead. Christmas.... Originally a nice Pagan festival celebrating the Winter Solstice, and planning for new hardy crops in the spring.
The huge companies have forgotten the roots of the holidays. Too blinded by their own creations to see what they have missed, or destroyed.
What do you think of when you hear the words: Santa Claus?
A man in a red suit, white trimming, black boots, big white beard and a hat?
Yup. The image we all know, created by the Coca Cola Company to boost sales of their drink. Sure, he was based on older folk characters like Cinter Clas, Perre Noel, among others. Taken, twisted, and shoved into the current incarnation.
We all have forgotten the roots of the holidays, the true spirit of the events we take for granted. Not to mention how "politically correct' the government wishes us to be, as to not offend anyone else. I wish we could just go back to the times where the events truly meant something. Get rid of all the glitz and glamor that is obscuring the origins and truth on the holidays.
