Wrong message.
If there's one thing I like about Christmas it's that it's the season of good will. It's the time of the year when we try to be good; and if we change the name of the Christmas Season to the Holiday Season we might lose that special feeling that only comes once a year. In other words: we might lose the ability to be good. If we lose the ability to be good in this violant world I can only shudder at what might happen to the minorities that the renaming Christmas Season with Holiday Season is supposed to protect.
Dickens said it well by his portrayal of Scrooge being transformed by the Christmas season. Scrooge is the corporate mentality incarnate. It's all about money and self interest for Scrooge. Dickens shows Scrooge where he's going wrong by presenting Marley in the hereafter clad in chains. Then Dickens goes on to show Scrooge the error of his ways. By the end of the book Scrooge has accepted that good will toward all is a better way to go than selfish self interest. It's been a good reminder to us all for many a year.
A common saying arose in England: "You can't take it with you." But try telling that to the CEO's of corporations and you'll find that they don't want to know about Dickens, or Scrooge, and they especially don't want to know about Marley. They want the money that comes with the Christmas season, but they want nothing to do with what the Christmas season has come to be.
I know a lot of minorities, but I have yet to find one of them that feels alienated by the Christmas season, and they are amazed why anyone would even think they were offended. The whole idea goes against the concept of tolerance and against the grain of give and take. The minorities are not the ones behind the Grinch that wants to steal Christmas.
In New York, I'm told, they say Happy Holidays in the belief that they are doing the right thing. But I am forced to ask: the right thing for who and for what? Do they take us for fools in that we will believe that a mesage of intolerance toward the majority is really a message of love and concern for the minorities? Intolerance breeds more intolerance!
W.B Yeates wrote in his diary: "It seems that the world is under the control of an invisible hypnotist." He wrote that at the start of the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century I can write with certainty that we are controlled by a visible hypnotist.
What did Orwell write in his book "1984"?: Up is down and war is peace? Something like that. And now we have intolerance so we can have tolerance. But then again, I'm told that nothing exists without its opposite.
What ever next?
Dickens said it well by his portrayal of Scrooge being transformed by the Christmas season. Scrooge is the corporate mentality incarnate. It's all about money and self interest for Scrooge. Dickens shows Scrooge where he's going wrong by presenting Marley in the hereafter clad in chains. Then Dickens goes on to show Scrooge the error of his ways. By the end of the book Scrooge has accepted that good will toward all is a better way to go than selfish self interest. It's been a good reminder to us all for many a year.
A common saying arose in England: "You can't take it with you." But try telling that to the CEO's of corporations and you'll find that they don't want to know about Dickens, or Scrooge, and they especially don't want to know about Marley. They want the money that comes with the Christmas season, but they want nothing to do with what the Christmas season has come to be.
I know a lot of minorities, but I have yet to find one of them that feels alienated by the Christmas season, and they are amazed why anyone would even think they were offended. The whole idea goes against the concept of tolerance and against the grain of give and take. The minorities are not the ones behind the Grinch that wants to steal Christmas.
In New York, I'm told, they say Happy Holidays in the belief that they are doing the right thing. But I am forced to ask: the right thing for who and for what? Do they take us for fools in that we will believe that a mesage of intolerance toward the majority is really a message of love and concern for the minorities? Intolerance breeds more intolerance!
W.B Yeates wrote in his diary: "It seems that the world is under the control of an invisible hypnotist." He wrote that at the start of the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century I can write with certainty that we are controlled by a visible hypnotist.
What did Orwell write in his book "1984"?: Up is down and war is peace? Something like that. And now we have intolerance so we can have tolerance. But then again, I'm told that nothing exists without its opposite.
What ever next?
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