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| Picasso - Santa Claus - 1959 |
10 Reasons I Don't Like Christmas
- The generalized task of needed to buy presents; the request for lists
- My own sense of failure at buying (or making or choosing) meaningful or fun gifts
- Inflatables; the new arms race for bigger inflatables
- Midnight mass... my inability to understand why people would want to do that
- Or any other Xmas mass... why would going to mass 1 or 2x year count.... the casualness of it: either it matters pretty intensely, or it doesn't; again, my inability to understand why people would do it: to assuage what? to take part in what?
- TV commercials from expensive car companies that suggest that real families, real husbands buy cars for others for Xmas
- TV commercials for stores - Walmart, Menards, Dicks - that you can solve all of your Xmas buying needs (huge explosions of buying, nearly indiscriminate) in one orgy of purchasing
- My own sense of failure at having not an ounce of excitement ... no ability to "get excited" about any of it
- The buying, the sense that you buy stuff to not seem unthoughtful or cheap; the materialism of that
- The reminder that everyone just buys whatever they want for themselves whenever they want; there is NO need for Xmas gifts bc everyone has already bought their own shit. Xmas, then, a reminder of the crass materialism that we live in, which is watered by ads on TV and culturally built in to prick us to buy, buy, buy
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