Rural Rage with Country Sage

The Corporate Season

Somewhere between the angelic television commercials offering us the miraculous opportunity to purchase the Christmas Spirit, plus tax, the TV networks try to squeeze in the odd, semi-intelligent moment of programming. If anyone out there has ever found that moment, please, let us all know.
Maybe all the department stores send couriers up to Heaven each Christmas, via air miles, with a list of the people who spent the most money, hoping to secure themselves a piece of the rock just in case there’s any truth to this Jesus thing that keeps getting in their way to profit-nirvana. Don’t laugh; judging by the sales records and the empty parking lots at the churches, many people must believe it. Mind you, churches that have swallowed the fem/gay agenda are doing a pretty good job of driving out their faithful on their own.
The other slimy part of all this is that the big box stores and the TV networks want to exclude Christmas and make it ‘Holiday Season’ exclusively, but they also want us to keep the ‘feel-good’ feeling about Christmas so we’ll continue to spend with our emotions instead of our head. Of course it would help them immensely when they march into our provincial legislator’s office and demand to be open on Dec. 25th since ‘Holiday Season’ will not be a religious event anymore. Watch for it and don’t expect any help from our legislators. They sold their souls years ago.
Frankly, it wouldn’t make any difference to many people’s spending habits if they changed the name to ‘Save Days’ or ‘Pay Days’. Somewhere, some day in the future, some woman will scratch her beard while pondering the question, “Didn’t it have a different name before?” You go girl!
The good news is, as the Grinch found out, ‘They can take away the tinsel, the tassels, the trinkets and the toys’ but, for those who teach their children, they will never, ever, take away the Spirit who is with us every day, including Christmas.
Merry Christmas!