Couldn’t agree more with Larry David!

Just read ’Curb your enthusiasm’s Larry David’s article describing Christmas as an absolute joke, a farce and an environmental disaster. Couldn’t agree more.. Some will say, ”well, he’s Jewish”. Sure, but Jewish holidays are not mandatory public holidays here, and they do jot heap pressure on everyone like Christmas do…

Many years ago, after school, I wanted to be a writer and I took 2 years off to travel the world, to decide what I will write about. What I saw around the world left me totally empty and will haunt me till my very last day on earth. Words fail me. I still struggle to understand or describe how entitled we feel, when we saunter around the world, waiting to be served, expecting service because we can pay for it. You see glitzy towns and a step off the main streets you see hungry children digging through dustbins to find food to eat.

We created a monetary system and financial sectors that ensure the same old traditional supremos remain in control, while the rest of the world are locked in, under that financial control, as the supremos hand them loans. You have the likes of Greece, Ireland and pretty much every so-called third-world country owing billions. And hey! that all makes sense but Cryptocurrency doesn’t. Bitcoin is doomed, it is based on nothing, it has no value, yap, yap, yap. Well, what value exactly has the monetary system that has kept so many countries in abject poverty for so long???? Much as I am not an advocate of Cryptocurrency and do not know anything about it, it makes as much sense as the present rigged financial systems we have, which brilliantly keeps the poor countries poor. They produce, they have natural resources, but we allow their leaders to embezzle billions (why? and where do they stash those funds?). Why do we have so many poor and homeless in the UK, US and other developed countries? – are we saying we lack the resources to eradicate poverty here? People are hungry, even as large stores throw unsold food away weekly.

Now, what has all the above got to do with Christmas one may ask?

It has everything to do with it. It is the same narrow mindedness that led to the creation of a convoluted, fake period where lonely people feel even more lonely and desolate (read an article in the Guardian this morning about the hopelessness felt by single folk at Christmas), but hey! what do we care? You do You. There are all sorts of excuses out there: it’s tradition (whose tradition?), it’s religious (ok. and where is religion when the next lonely person commit suicide as they dread the arrival of Dec?), it’s just a time to be merry (ok – but so many do not have the wherewithal to be merry and are under pressure). But hey! we can’t change the world….

Personally, I just try to be as sensible as I can: i don’t fuss about Christmas or New Year or Birthdays or any other celebration. BUT I try not to ruin it for others, if they wish to. I try to keep my perspective, while avoiding fouling it for those who derive pleasure from these celebrations. But it does reemphasise the reason the world will always be exactly as it is …… our selectiveness and NIMBY attitude means we will continue to look away when inconvenient truth stare us in the face..

….. and a merry xmas to you all (ha ha) .