>> Merry X-mas and Xppropriate the Xppropriators and Powersthatbe Today: >> A Critique of X-mas for our Party >> >> by Tanico X >> >> >> How Santa Claus is the saint of commodity fetishism >> or buying madness ! In an economic culture where buying mania must be >> instilled in people from the time they are small children, Santa is the >> perfect mind molestor , and his holiday the biggest on the calendar. The >> shopping ritual begins (in the U.S.) officially the day after Thanksgiving. >> This give-your-money-away festival is monthlong. "Shop until you drop as in >> a religious fervor" is a possible motto for it. >> >> Yet, Christmas is certainly a season of great joy as well, real fun >> and happiness; there's no denying that. People really do get happy with >> family and friends in feasts, escaping alienation, lonliness and drudgery. >> It's a holiday ! >> >> A fundamental unity of opposites in the structure of our spiritual >> life: materialistic addiction and the birth of love in merriment, plus >> renewal of life with the new year, all in one cyclical celebration, the >> Sunday of the Year. For this civilization there is something profound about >> Christmas, X -mas. >> >> Profound but not mysterious. It is a yearly, regular, routine >> profundity. Years creeping by at a 'petty pace, year after year until the >> last syllable of recorded time.' Perhaps mysterious in its myth of a virgin >> birth, virgin because white culture conceives of sex as dirty, sinning, >> soiled, a vice, so God is born without biological sex. >> >> The great mystery or trick is not conception without biology and orgasm, but >> that just as much exchange of commodities and money as exchange of gifts >> goes on. We are a market, not a stone age economy of gift exchange. See >> the commodity exchange chains growing. M=C=M1=C1=M2... Token Gift exchange >> is used to promote commodity exchange really, but from the standpoint of >> celebration and ceremony, commodity exchange is promoted spiritually. Buying >> is a high, a good and virtuous high. Christmas cheer comes but once a year. >> >> Well, if you do buy madly, buy in Detroit, yet think critically how >> through buying madness things control us and we don't control things. We >> become objects and things become subjects, with wills and powers as if >> alive. The mystery around Santa Claus helps to promote this mystical >> reversal of the real relations between people and the commodities they make >> and buy. Our greatest addiction problem is not "drugs", but our addictiion >> to commodities, our commodity fetishism, our buying madness, seeking to >> fulfill ourselves through things not people. People made the things, not >> elves. >> >> Let me say it nicer. Celebration is vital. Merry, Happy to y'all. >> Christmas comes but once a year, and to me it means good cheer, and to >> everyone who likes wine and beer. Happy New Year is after that. Happy we'll >> be, and that's a fact. Hey, Bessie, Christmas Cheer ! >> >> The taboos on the Secrets of Joy prevent this highest happy season in >> Europe/America from fulfillment. There is a mystery worth reading through, >> a riddle that will free the Sphinx in you. How do we really make Christmas >> better or is it perfect already ? >> >> Criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism, so let us >> begin crticism of ceremony, festival, long, long cabaret by asking some >> questions about Christmas, our highest of holidays, holy of holy rituals. >> Who was Jesus Christ ? Was he the Son of God ? Does he live still now 2005 >> years or so since his birth ? If the answer to either of the second two >> questions is "no" , are we overdoing this holiday a bit ? >> >> What is the Santa Claus myth ? What is the relation of Santa Claus to >> Jesus Christ ? Is the Patriarchal Great White Father of European >> civilization a net giver or taker, Provider or Xploiting Xppropriator ? >> >> Do you dare to eat a peach ? >> >> Tragedy is less than comedy, grandeloquent logic is inferior to comedic >> logic, rather than a folly of despair, let us make a folly as you like it. >> Lets have fun, fun , fun. Swirling bodies to sweet, sweet voices, decked in >> Black and joys. I don't only want to pursue happiness, I desire to have it >> and keep it. Tell the truth, don't you ? It's what our Blues are about. >> >> How Now, our Party of a New Type ? Send a call across the airways, >> radioman. Seek a wonderous song and wise. Tell us true Black Athenas, >> Kemetians in disguise, Sisters with voices. >> >> quote: >> * REJOICE AND REJOIN OUR SECRETS OF JOY * : >> >> >> F U N X >>
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