Pre Xmas Rant - Part 2

Right, just so everyone knows, I am sick and tired to the point of sobbing, of people explaining, on telly, the radio, in newspapers, on street corners or in the office, how they 'don't like Xmas anymore, its gone too commercial'.

Really.

So, its just Xmas that's gone commercial? Its not that you've voted consistently for centre right, capitalist leaning political parties over the past 2 decades, ones that have allowed for a steady dismantling and erosion of altruistic state and a gradual domination of the nations (if not worlds) minds with a consumer society, dominated by nothing but big business trying to persuade you to buy-buy-buy, and even better, work-work-work so that you can buy-buy-buy. Work every poxy second that God sends. Gotta get on, gotta make money! But hey! Xmas is TOO COMMERCIAL!!!

That's right, because the truth is that actually, you love living in a consumerist society and you're so wrapped up rolling in your Freudian poo substitutions, that actually its YOU who has ruined xmas, by falsely believing that it is simply about spending and mass consumption to the point where you can no longer remember that, regardless of secular beliefs, Xmas is a time for family, for generosity of spirit and for giving. But yes, just 2 days of dropping out of the spectacular, wholly transitory, false, empty, illusory daily distraction of the race that is 'getting on' is WRONG!

As we all know, there is nothing even vaguely commercial about the rest of the year...

Don't want any presents for your birthday this year then I take it...?