Prominent Canadian Women Press For Gender Neutral Anthem

[The Dharma Bum]

Well, it is clear to me that the social purpose of the christmas holiday is that it is a way for markets to sell off excess inventory at the end of the year and to pacify the population through celebration. Yes, people enjoy it (that's the point of it). And no your mom isn't a capitalist pig, she is a victim of a soulless, uncaring system of exploitation just like everyone else.

You know, capitalism began about 400 years ago. lol Right about the same time this "tradition" began.

Imagine that.

[exploited]

Still waiting on those answers.

1. How will saying Happy Holidays versus Merry Christmas strike a blow against consumer culture?

2. How does saying Merry Christmas impose a cultural expectation, and what is that expectation?

3. How can Merry Christmas and culture-specific greetings be construed as cultural hegemony when corporations are the biggest advocate for culture neutral language there is?

But please, go ahead and continue spewing tin-foil hat, conspiratorial nonsense if you like. At this point it is pretty clear you don't have an argument - you are just once again trying to take a complex topic and make it fit into your all-encompassing ideology of the world.

[The Dharma Bum]

I've addressed each of those points in detail already. lol You just didn't like the answers.

[The Dharma Bum]

[exploited]

You haven't addressed those points at all. All you've done is link to a Wikipedia page about cultural hegemony, and I've already blown that argument out of the water, as it is pretty clear that capitalists perceive cultural neutral language as a better way to make more money. Which is why they've largely adopted it.

The rest of your posts are literally empty, meaningless garbage. You've said that saying Merry Christmas creates a cultural expectation, but refused to say what it is. You've hinted that it is consumerism - we have been indoctrinated to say Merry Christmas so that capitalists can sell off excess stock, but as already noted, those capitalists don't say Merry Christmas, and the phrase itself has been around for centuries, well before you claim it was coopted by business.

In the end, you've said nothing with actual value. Many words, none of which signify anything other than your desire to impose your cultural imperatives on the rest of society, under a guise of cultureless multiculturalism.

Go ahead and pretend all you want, but the text is there for all to read, and anyone who isn't an ideologue can see clearly enough that you are full of shit.

[The Dharma Bum]

[The Dharma Bum]

And no where did I ever indicate a desire to impose my own cultural expectations on society. I'm pretty sure my cultural expectations are basically the same as yours are. Perhaps with insight we can transcend that worldview and see things from another perspective, eh?

[The Dharma Bum]

[exploited]

[The Dharma Bum]

It creates the expectation from your friends and family that you will buy a lot of stuff for the holidays. This is an imposition because most people can't really afford to buy their kids all of the stuff they expect to be under the tree on christmas morning.

I mean c'mon, dood I can't simplify it any more than that. It seems rather obvious. As I said, you are being willfully obtuse. If you actually do make your own presents, then surely the reason you do that has something to do with how the "holidays have been commercialized" or something. It not exactly the same concept, but it springs from the same observations about this behavior.