I... I'm thinking about this and while, textually, that's the outcome of the kind of practice I'm advocating for, I also would _utterly love_ for the holidays to be dead forever because I'm not at all convinced they don't bring out the absolute most wretched behavior in peoplehttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1330599217790939141 …
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I don't actually think I've ever seen a holiday that wasn't awash with the American masses losing every fucking ounce of their sense of courtesy towards others They're just a frenzy of privileged people enjoying themselves at the expense of people who can't afford to do so
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And the fact that we literally have an economy that depends on Christmas is the surest evidence that we should probably abolish it People HAVE to celebrate it or, like, institutions fall apart? It's a load-bearing holiday? What the absolute fuck
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's amazing that Christmas is boomer nostalgia as economic keystone. Like the modern conception of it is in many ways a mid-century postwar economic boom invention. And now it holds up the economy and people fight imaginary culture wars over it.
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The idea of the Christmas season speaks to a certain toxicity built into the American work ethic That we tolerate a whole year of drudgery and stress and misery so we can afford a big blowout celebration at the end of the year to reward ourselves for it
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And that we think this makes you a BETTER PERSON than someone "lazy" who just doesn't ever have a big Christmas morning because they never worked that hard in the first place, who traded consumption for leisure The whole machine keeps humming because everyone thinks like this
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The other meaning of "Black Friday", that a lot of companies stay in the red all year until holiday shopping starts, there's no "normal" market for the shit they make, people ONLY buy it as part of an orgy of release after a year of thankless toil
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Feast or famine, as they say
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