Indeed. The “Christmas” we know is not the same kind of Christmas that empowered the Christmas Truce of 1914. A shared celebration of common humanity and good will and forgiveness and love. Gifts exchanged from the heart, not out of commercial obligation.
We must remember everything. EVERYTHING is co-opted and meddled and sold back to you mangled for a profit. It’s the same reason people associate Memorial Day, a day of rememberance for fallen warriors, with friggin mattresses and truck sales.
Labor Day? Man that one’s also been blunted. (Gee I wonder why). Forget all the sacrifices of union workers and labor organization who were brutally assaulted by their bosses to win things like universal safety standards and days off and overtime…BUY A TRUCK, RIGHT?!
So here we have it. Masses trampling each other after “Thanksgiving”, which is more about football and gluttony than sharing and companionship.
Christmas as a prime directive to consume instead of celebrate the breaths we have left with people we love.
Speaking of the Christmas Truce: The Christmas spirit could stop one of the most brutal conflicts in history if only for a moment…
…but now it’s not enough to stop the working class from being coerced into work away from their families because the profits must flow eternal.
Christmas was for everyone, because Christ is for everyone. These megachurch-flocking, immigrant spiting, flag-worshipping, suburban-nitpicking types don’t even know what a Christian is.
Holy shit Labor Day. A day the people who get paid the least labor extra hard because people who make decent money are off and spending. I had my first Labor Day ever off this year, and it’s because the day it fell on made the people at the corporation we contract for get a long weekend, so there was no work.
That’s not Christmas winning, that’s just commercialism winning.
Indeed. The “Christmas” we know is not the same kind of Christmas that empowered the Christmas Truce of 1914. A shared celebration of common humanity and good will and forgiveness and love. Gifts exchanged from the heart, not out of commercial obligation.
We must remember everything. EVERYTHING is co-opted and meddled and sold back to you mangled for a profit. It’s the same reason people associate Memorial Day, a day of rememberance for fallen warriors, with friggin mattresses and truck sales.
Labor Day? Man that one’s also been blunted. (Gee I wonder why). Forget all the sacrifices of union workers and labor organization who were brutally assaulted by their bosses to win things like universal safety standards and days off and overtime…BUY A TRUCK, RIGHT?!
So here we have it. Masses trampling each other after “Thanksgiving”, which is more about football and gluttony than sharing and companionship. Christmas as a prime directive to consume instead of celebrate the breaths we have left with people we love.
Speaking of the Christmas Truce: The Christmas spirit could stop one of the most brutal conflicts in history if only for a moment…
…but now it’s not enough to stop the working class from being coerced into work away from their families because the profits must flow eternal.
Christmas was for everyone, because Christ is for everyone. These megachurch-flocking, immigrant spiting, flag-worshipping, suburban-nitpicking types don’t even know what a Christian is.
Holy shit Labor Day. A day the people who get paid the least labor extra hard because people who make decent money are off and spending. I had my first Labor Day ever off this year, and it’s because the day it fell on made the people at the corporation we contract for get a long weekend, so there was no work.