A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

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Posted on 29th November 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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It’s almost December and the Christmas spirit has not entered my soul yet. It’s not like the old days when I didn’t realize what was going on in the world. The magic went out of Christmas when the last of my kids stopped believing in Santa Claus. Now, buying the tree, putting up the lights and buying the presents are just another chore. Sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown at Christmas.

Last night I was at the YMCA with Avalon and my son, trying to work off the cruise weight. As I was pedaling away on the stationary bike, A Charlie Brown Christmas came on the TV. I watched it for the first time in years. I loved it as a child and loved watching it with my kids. It first aired in 1965 when I was two years old. I’d forgotten that the theme of the cartoon was the over-commercialization and secularization of Christmas. Imagine that. Charles Shultz thought Christmas was too commercialized in 1965. Think how far we’ve come, with hordes of ignorant dumbasses knocking each other to the ground on Black Friday. The scene that made me laugh was when Charlie Brown’s little sister asks him to write her letter to Santa Claus: 

Sally: Please note the size and color of each item, and send as many as possible. If it seems too complicated, make it easy on yourself: just send money. How about tens and twenties?

Charlie Brown: TENS AND TWENTIES? Oh, even my baby sister!
 
Sally: All I want is what I… I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share.
 

All I want is my fair share. It seems that 1965 was the beginning of this mantra. Is it a coincidence that LBJ’s War on Poverty programs began this very same year? The secularization and commercialization of America began in the mid 1960s. The credit card was introduced in 1969 and we were off to the races. Everyone in this country wants what is coming to them. They just don’t want to pay for it. Our society is driven by greed, materialism, debt, and an attitude that they deserve something for nothing.
 
The true message of this brilliant cartoon must really irritate the progressive do-gooders that dominate in this country. A cartoon that references Jesus Christ in a positive manner and describes the true meaning of Christmas could never be introduced onto network TV today. I purposely use the term Christmas rather than holidays because I hope to piss off the secular nitwits that want this time of the year to be nothing but a shopping exercise of excess. I do not look forward to all the commercial crap I’ll need to deal with over the next four weeks. What I will look forward to is Christmas Eve at my house. My wife has 8 brothers and sisters, with dozens of neices, nephews, grandkids, etc who are all invited to my house for a wild day of drinking, eating, insulting and a good time. My mother in law will gather the young kids around the table with a birthday cake for Jesus. I’ll listen to stories from my father in law, who has already beaten off cancer twice and now has it again. I will go to bed that night with my Christmas spirit intact, knowing that family and the love of my wife and kids is all that matters in the long run. 
  

 

Merry Christmas!!!