For some reason, I'm very disillusioned about the whole Christmas season now. I know there's the whole spiel about Christmas starting before Halloween, and how the season seems to be getting longer and longer. What I'm sick about is the commercialism and consumerism involved. I saw the Macy's Day Parade, and was revolted by the consumerism involved. There's nothing interesting about this pageant any more. Not sure there ever was, but this year, I was just overwhelmed with the crap that was going on. They had a Pikachu float in front of a Juicy Coture billboard, with an NBC ad in the corner for another show. Then they cut to commercial. When will our society come to the saturation point with advertisement. With the advent of DVRs, commercials have to be spectacular for people to remember them and hell, to even watch them. I know I've stopped fast forwarding if I see a commercial that looks especially interesting. Unfortunately, its also the reason for all those in-show ads at the bottom of the screen.
Anyway, back to the season. It seems that people get more inspired by black Friday(and now Cyber Monday?) than by Christmas itself, and often just go on BF to get something for themselves. Rarely do I hear "I am getting up at 4 AM to get my wife this awesome gift!" I guess its a sign of the selfishness that's occurring these days. I don't know why I needed to post this, its not like there aren't 10,000 other blog posts about the holiday seasons. I guess I was just shocked about how blatantly consumerist the Macy's parade is. That said, I want to see the look of joy on my wife's face when I get her the things she's been wanting this season.
I'll end this post on a light note. The thing I'm most fond of at the holidays: The food. I love to cook and bake, and I get a chance to try out new stuff this time of year.
