Christmas is a time when things once miraculous have been turned into plasticized mass-produced re-creations whose meaning is incorporated into a wholly self-serving dogma of a Holiday of Consumerism. The sacred and the diverse have been blended together into the mundane. Gift-giving has transcended symbolism to become both an ends and a means, a cycle of greed that takes advantage of a genuine current of goodwill and hopefulness.
Holly Days
Posted by Ben on December 21, 2003
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