Let's forget the global credit crunch and the wobbly state of the Earth and spend like muthafuckers because a Jewish bloke who was part carpenter and part socioligist - at best, at worst he is figment of the collective imagination - may or may not have been born a little over 2000 years ago. As an atheist-stroke-environmentalist that is a double-whammy of depression for this grinch.
As I am alientating myself from the vast majority of people, many failing to see the tragic irony of placing energy-efficient light globes on the dead tree in their lounge room, I may as well go the whole hog...
Santa Claus. Nice story to tell your kids, all very festive and lovely. Only it isn't. It is lying to your kids. Boo-hiss me, it's just a bit of harmless fun! Harmless fun my arse. It teaches us, from an eatly age, that some lying is OK. Not a massive stretch from Santa Claus is real to Saddam has WMDs and of course your pension is safe.
No, it is just a bit of harmless fun, and we all grow up OK. But we all tell lies. And that's just fine.
2 comments:
Same Rant, Same festive Melv, although I did like the bit about energy saving bulbs on a dead tree. To acknowledge that fact I'll make sure my bulbs are not ironic but light up world!
Send my Love to Sal.
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Merry Xmas Wozza, still love ya man
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