Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal!

As the horrible year of 2016 comes to a close, we are presented with yet another over commercialized holiday season.  Corporations greedy hands rub together as the snicker about the consumers buying into the holiday cheer.  Holidays were originally held to spend time with loved ones and show thanks for them.  Now it's all about the money, gifts, and alcohol!

Even Mother's Day, a holiday created by Woodrow Wilson on May 9th, 1914, has since become an event centered around gifts and merchandizing (Happy mother day).  Mother's Day becomes an event of the year where ads and promotions run rampant through the spring months.  Why? Because corporations are killing the true meaning behind holidays. The Atlanta Business Journal has a great article regarding the commercialization of holidays (ATL or die).

Back in the America of the 1800s, yes back when the Mayans went hyphy dumb on em, Christmas was not the national event of the season it is today.  In fact Christmas was celebrated in scattered portions of the nation, solely based around the celebration of the birth of christ.  (Facts bruh) The idealized single family home was the birth of the commercialization of Christmas.  Urban upper class families were capable of celebrating these luxuries.  So how did we get to the Christmas of today, the one where ads run even before Halloween?!

Who knows, but what is absolutely ridiculous is Black Friday.  The bane of my existence.  Black Friday has progressively been creeping further and further into the realm of family time, time of another holiday.  Thanksgiving is the time of thanks and family time, not the time of oversized crowds trampling helpless individuals just so they can get that dank toaster oven for 13.67% off.  Nah fam, that aint my jam.  The greatest outcome of Black Friday has been the most recent movement, opt outside.  A movement in which you skip the sales, and opt to go outside on an adventure.  This is what the world needs people! Except don't go outside and be near me, because I am getting outside to escape you all.  

I understand that the economy needs Christmas sales to full its engine, but do we really need to trample individuals? Is that truly the holiday spirit? NOPE.  Stop the over-commercialization people and get back to the roots of the holidays here.  Spending time with your loved ones.  Spread that joy.