[PEN-L:1884] Re: Vicious Holiday Silliness

[Peter Bohmer <bohmerp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gar, Happy Holidays to you and your mom, Peter

Gar Lipow wrote:

> 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/