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30th October 2018

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 156 notes

kontextmaschine:

• Christ is born and HE is savior! (Levant, 00-100)

• The day of his birth is a holiday called Christmas (Rome, 300s)

• Nicholas is sainted in his name (Anatolia, 400-500)

• St. Nicholas is “Santa Claus”, bringer of presents! (Dutch-American legend, NYC, USA, early 19th cen.)

• Santa Claus fills stockings riding a sleigh pulled by 8 reindeer (Clement Clarke Moore, USA, 1823)

• Christmas is a day where capitalist magnates are inspired away from profit-maximization by popular sentiment (Charles Dickens, London, UK, 1843)

• Christmas is a holiday where you erect a lit pine tree and trade store-bought presents (mid-late 19th cen., German lands)

• Santa Claus wears a red cap and suit (Coca-Cola and others, USA, 1930s)

• Santa has a 9th reindeer, a pathetic runt named Rudolph (Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward, Chicago, USA, 1939)

• Christmas is a day where people erect evergreen trees and exchange presents but a fuzzy green monster representing capitalism wears a red suit and teams with an ersatz runt reindeer to undermine it, but popular sentiment inspires him away (Theodore Geisel as “Dr. Seuss”, La Jolla California, USA, 1957)

Cultural evolution!

Meanwhile in half a century the other thread born from A Christmas Story and Die Hard and It’s A Wonderful Life and Home Alone becomes a story of a boy alienated from his parents because they don’t trust him with a gun pulling it together to kill invaders but also realize his life is richer putting up with them than it would be without

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