It's everywhere.
It feels like each year the Christmas Spirit goes 'Hollywood'.
You got the glitz, the glammer, and the formulaic music. It's all there and it's taken my Christmas spirit and tendorized it down to a bowl of mashed potatoes. Ok. Maybe I'm just dramatizing the situation a bit but let's have a little rewind shall we?
Post Halloween. This is where it all begins. The lights go up, and the music starts pumping. An overnight change of tactics to tantalize the consumer buying behaviour with the next big event. Welcome to Commercialism's climatic fiscal year-end. It's not forgiving, nor does it really embody the Christmas spirit. It is greedy and wants your money.
Enter the spotlight...'black friday' aka the day after American Thanksgiving. I used to think boxing day was scary but after having viewed an amatuer video on YouTube of a Best Buy being swarmed by human bees at a 5am opening I quickly reconsidered. It kinda makes the premise of all those zoombie movies a little less obsurd.
If comercialism really had a christmas spirit shouldn't they be giving back to us, the consumers, that religiously worship the ground that they stock on? You'd think so with days like Black Friday but the majority of people don't get the door crasher specials and are just left to bite the dust.
I admit, part of the reason for this rant is due to the fact that I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet and that time is tick-tocking away. The holiday season definitely does not favour procrastinators like myself. But I'm an idealist and just wish for the days when Christmas wasn't overplayed and hijacked like an al-qaeda terrorist plot.
If Santa existed, my wish list would be the following: good food, good music, friends and family, some outdoor activities and a crisp christmas day preferably of a white nature. Everything else would be a bonus.
It feels like each year the Christmas Spirit goes 'Hollywood'.
You got the glitz, the glammer, and the formulaic music. It's all there and it's taken my Christmas spirit and tendorized it down to a bowl of mashed potatoes. Ok. Maybe I'm just dramatizing the situation a bit but let's have a little rewind shall we?
Post Halloween. This is where it all begins. The lights go up, and the music starts pumping. An overnight change of tactics to tantalize the consumer buying behaviour with the next big event. Welcome to Commercialism's climatic fiscal year-end. It's not forgiving, nor does it really embody the Christmas spirit. It is greedy and wants your money.
Enter the spotlight...'black friday' aka the day after American Thanksgiving. I used to think boxing day was scary but after having viewed an amatuer video on YouTube of a Best Buy being swarmed by human bees at a 5am opening I quickly reconsidered. It kinda makes the premise of all those zoombie movies a little less obsurd.
If comercialism really had a christmas spirit shouldn't they be giving back to us, the consumers, that religiously worship the ground that they stock on? You'd think so with days like Black Friday but the majority of people don't get the door crasher specials and are just left to bite the dust.
I admit, part of the reason for this rant is due to the fact that I haven't done any Christmas shopping yet and that time is tick-tocking away. The holiday season definitely does not favour procrastinators like myself. But I'm an idealist and just wish for the days when Christmas wasn't overplayed and hijacked like an al-qaeda terrorist plot.
If Santa existed, my wish list would be the following: good food, good music, friends and family, some outdoor activities and a crisp christmas day preferably of a white nature. Everything else would be a bonus.
