I wish you a merry christmas...

Oh how I loathe today's society.

OBEDIENCE NOT LEARNING!

CONFORMITY NOT THINKING!

MANIPULATION NOT GUIDANCE!

So I thought, seeing as it's Christmas time, kinda, and I've been subjected to endless carols for the last few weeks, I'd analyse the meaning behind the lyrics of some Christmas songs, because if you ask me, it's pretty fucked up!

Let's start with

Santa Claus is coming to town

You'd better not shout
You'd better not cry
You'd better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town.
...
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good, for goodness' sake!


OK so a really obvious one to start with, but a doozy! You'd better learn to behave, or else Santa won't bring you any presents this year for Christmas! The underlying and not even remotely subtle message here being DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD! And the part I personally like best about this idea, is that it is some OTHER party, someone completely unknown and unreachable, who is blamed for the potential punishment! So the parent gets an excuse to say to their child, 'Hey! Do exactly what I say, when I say it or SOME WEIRD GUY IN A SUIT IS GOING TO DECIDE YOU NO LONGER DESERVE A GIFT AT CHRISTMAS! And OF COURSE you know if it were up to ME I'D be so forgiving and understanding that I'D still give you a present, but this SANTA HAS HIS RULES!'
For FUCK'S SAKE! Can the level of lying to children sink any LOWER than this? Seriously! Way to take away their right to think for themselves, their desire to be children, and then what's best; their ability to feel anger towards the person inflicting these sufferings!
Thank GOD children aren't so dumb as to believe this crap, but the incessant repetition of the songs in shops and schools and on television hits home with an EFFECT pretty frightening for its subtlety.

Moving along.

Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolf
Join in any reindeer games!
Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
'Rudolf with your nose so bright,
won't you guide my sleigh tonight?'
Then how the reindeer loved him
etc

So the moral of the story is, some guy everyone credits as superior decided he could use some physical attribute of someone considered 'ugly', and said ugly person happens to kick butt at something everyone else admires. Suddenly everyone who once mocked him thinks he's awesome! Well fucking great! I'd hate to think how it would have ended if Rudolf sucked at guiding sleighs but was amazing at healing the wounded or maybe comforting grief stricken reindeer. He'd still be a fucking outcast! What does this say to children? 'If you're ugly, you'd damn well better be fucking awesome at something everyone else likes!' What the FUCK kind of example is that to teach a child?! And I barely even need to mention the fact that the song demonstrates how retarded everyone is that they judged this reindeer purely on his nose and never got to know him at all until it was thrust in their faces that he happened to be awesome at something they all wanted to do. Ahh how true it is, everyone IS shallow and retarded. But do we have to tell kids that in song?

*sigh*


I'm getting kinda depressed, so I'm going to stop there. But this isn't over! The christians lied, manipulated, frightened, threatened, and finally to get their way when even all of that wasn't enough, they suddenly made pagan angels and deities 'demons' and pagan holidays 'christian holidays' such as yule - yule was such a loving, giving and beloved holiday that people wouldn't stop celebrating it, so the fucking christians turned it into 'christmas' when jesus wasn't even BORN on that day!

And joy of joys that wasn't enough for our society; christmas has come to be the driving force in our economy, the focal distraction of our youth from the reality of the world, and the single most manipulated 'good intention' in HISTORY!

And oh how wonderful it is that I PERSONALLY will be dressed as santa in our store this year. Oh how I am looking forward to being FIRED over what I plan to tell children...