Phew! That ordeal called ‘Christmas’ has come and gone…

It is one of those things that are simply impossible to comprehend, but the minute you take a peek that the amount of money that circulates around it, you know it is an untouchable topic, similar to gun control in America or the MAGA movement and other similar phenomena

We recently publicly lynched a Baroness Mone here in the UK for lying to the press about the profit she & her husband stood to make from rushed government contracts to provide PPE at the height of Covid. And yes, for someone in the House of Lords, she really should never have sought to profit from that situation. We also wonder why Boris Johnson continually lied while in government. WELL, we bring up our children in an environment where we tell them some lies are ok (if in good sport and to continue to propagate some idiotic notion of happiness at a certain time of the year – Christmas) while some lies ain’t. And we expect them to just toe that line. Well, some do. While others assume that provided you feel the lies are justifiable in your mind (same as for Christmas and Father Christmas etc.), it is ok. Can we really sit in judgement of that?

I mean, how far do we really, truly had to take the whole Christmas junk?!! Ok, there’s a Santa who slides around and distributes presents. Fine. But for goodness sake, with millions of hungry kids around the world, why go as far as to waste carrots and juice and cookies etc., laid out overnight for Santa??? Only to be thrown out in the morning, just to keep the charade going!???
And all for what exactly?
To manufacture happiness? Would the kids not have been ok without this charade?
Whose happiness exactly?
Then there’s the whole annexation of a Middle East story of a baby Jesus and all that, while we watch the Middle East in a bloody mess right now! What hypocrisy! Can the world not so something to have prevented all the mindless killings going on out there, including the years (and ongoing) of war in Syria (all these places e.g. Damascus, sit at the very heart of the Christmas story that we sing nativity songs about and try to dissociate from that reality). We want the ‘Jesus’ story but we wouldn’t want Jesus’ descendants who are now seeking asylum/refuge in their thousands due to the various conflict in that region…

But of course, we expect honest politicians and civil servants, from the same brood of kids we started out in life by deliberately telling all these needless lies to, just to progress what we call “tradition”!

Personally, I am not opposed to any of it (expect for the waste – I loath to see the pile of largely useless gifts that end up untouched a week after); if that is what keeps people happy, fine. Carry on with it. But do not then expect a Boris Johnson not to grow up thinking he can make whatever he wants of the truth. What is the truth anyway? And I’m sure he and others also think: who’s truth??