I say happy holidays for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I think American Christmas is too much already just TOO-- & after working retail for so many years I can't honestly say that I celebrate Christmas, even if I do give some presents to some people at that time of year. And the thing is, if I don't personally celebrate Christmas, it just FEELS kinda WRONG to be contributing to the too much. There are other holidays being celebrated. Yes, if you are buying Christmas stuff at Christmas time it is probably safe for me to assume you celebrate Christmas-- I'm not really worried that I'll offend you by saying Merry Christmas to you. That is probably not the reason.
I guess what I'm doing is refusing to do what you expect me to do.
It doesn't FEEL that way to me.
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We celebrated Christmas when I was growing up; we celebrated it very much as the Standard American Holiday Trifecta: Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Year's Eve. There were shows. There was gorging. There was emotional abuse. There was football.
Not only was there not any JESUS there wasn't even any implied ACTUAL SANTA. The presents came from who they came from, santa didn't bring anything-- SANTA was a CONCEPT for the spirit of giving; we're ALL santa, kinda.
That was maybe just because I asked too many questions.
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I think there used to be more of a CONSENSUS REALITY.
NOT that everybody was having the same experience so much as that we all KNEW sort of what we were supposed to be pretending. BUT now there are hundreds of channels across multiple forms of media, podcasts & other long-form interview, and all the many avenues of written word. There's no PRIMETIME. Everyone just decides what they want to hear and look for whoever will give it to them.
There's no CONSENSUS.
I WANTED to think that was GOOD.
MAYBE that was naive.
