Christmas feeds the system.
It’s all about commercialism and capitalism, whilst giving the masses something to get all excited about and feel/think that the system works for them. Controlled dopamine and serotonin release.
Unfortunately, that’s an illusion.
Take some of the current TV ads for Sainsbury’s, John Lewis et al. Emotional guilt trips aplenty, encouraging the populous to spend money they haven’t got on stuff that none of us need, creating bigger debt and more interest income for the lenders, more products sold by the retailers, distributors, manufacturers, and more profit. Paying their employees, so they can return it back into the system at multiple levels.
Christmas cards also feed this guilt factor and we are pressed to send cards to people because everyone else does. Do we just think about these people only at this time of year?
It’s all about using up resources as though we live on an infinite resource. It’s all about the need for continuous growth and profit and dividends that is the fundamentals of the system within which we live.
It is, quite frankly an elaborate illusion of delusion, created by the system.
Better to be of the system than in the system in my world.
But we all make our own worlds and if Christmas is in yours, then have an enjoyable one.