[PEN-L:1883] Vicious Holiday Silliness

[Gar Lipow <lipowg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some reason this season made me think not about the real meaning
of Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, Ramadan, Solstice or any other
holiday, but about the real meaning of Santa Claus --  and all the
valuable lesson Santa teaches for living in corporate America.

Think about what a kid learns on first discovering there are is no
Santa Claus. She learns (if she does not already know) that authority
figures lie, and that lies by authority figures are good lies, lies
you are rewarded for believing, lies you should go believing for as
long as possible.

If (as is usual) it is another kid who tells her there is no Santa ,
she learns that those who expose the lies of authority figures are
wicked destroyers of innocence, that the proper response to learning
that an authority figure has lied is to protect others from the awful
truth.
--
Gar W. Lipow
815 Dundee RD NW
Olympia, WA 98502
http://www.freetrain.org/