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Happy Holidays to All eventhough personally I think that Scrooge was an
advanced thinker.

My daughter is learning alternatives early.  For example, to the tune of God
Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen:

God rest ye merry merchants
let nothing you dismay
Christmas is the time of year
to make the workers stay
in debt throughout the coming year
Thank God for charge accounts
Our profits bring comfort and joy, comfort and joy,
Our profits bring comfort and joy

Mind you, the parents of other children think she is a victim of child abuse
but I call it early ideological propholaxis.

Jim Craven



n a message dated 12/27/98 4:37:26 PM Pacific Standard Time,
bohmerp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< ubj:	 [PEN-L:1884] Re: Vicious Holiday Silliness
 Date:	12/27/98 4:37:26 PM Pacific Standard Time
 From:	bohmerp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Bohmer)
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 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/



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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/


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