Esta publicación está dedicada a todos los grinches y grinchas de esta comunidad porque no todos amamos a la navidad. Ese despliegue de blanco, verde y rojo.
This post is dedicated to all the male grinchs and female grinchs in this community because not all of us love Christmas. That display of white, green and red.
It is a cultural assault where people who live in tropical countries buy trees to decorate them, but it cannot be a saman, a mango or avocado tree, which is what abounds on this side of the hemisphere. No, no, no. It is conical and perfect pine trees, It is placed with blinking lights and on television we see the repetition of the same old Christmas movies.
Just as there is forced inclusion, there is this phenomenon of forced Christmas spirit. People hang mistletoe on their doors. What is mistletoe? Where do they grow? I don't know about those in the north, but here they are all Made In Taiwan. Well, that's Christmas in Latin American countries, a plastic Christmas, the trees are plastic, as well as the lights, balls, ornaments and toys.
In the USA, as we see in the movies, there sits a man disguised as Santa Claus, who receives the wishes of the children. Adults take their children to a shopping mall to sit on another adult's leg. In other words, they allow a man to carry and grope their little son or daughter. I assume that these gentlemen they hire are psychologically screened to determine that they are harmless and not dark perverts. Okay, it seems to be a noble profession and surely the vast majority of them are harmless. Here, there is no such tradition. You don't see it much. Except in some very large shopping malls. Where people who are members of a middle/upper class attend and indulge in the celebration of someone else's tradition.
I apologize for being so negative about it, but it's not all backstage and caramel apples. You have to be dissatisfied with the society in which you live to observe its particularities. Which, obviously, you can't do if you are in conformity. Everything seems normal and nice to you. Another thing, if you ask people: what is celebrated at Christmas? they answer questions like: it celebrates the goodness and goodness of the world. At some point the objective was lost, the Christmas paraphernalia, together with the messages changed everything. It's a natural thing. Christmas is supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus, most people know it or knew it once, then they forget it. Overwhelmed by propaganda and advertising bombardment Christmas is a time for gift giving, a time to forgive your neighbors and relatives.
Yes, there is the celebration of the nativity scene, which is more or less autochthonous, someone will be able to investigate where it came from. The truth is that we lack our own culture, even though some of its roots are exalted. Incas, Mayas, Aztecs, Chibchas and Caribs, among so many important ethnic groups. what did they celebrate in December? If they celebrated anything at all. I include myself in the life absent of my own culture. My heroes are Spiderman, Ironman and many others ending in "man". Why are we so seduced by Christmas hats? What use is a sleigh in South America? Where is the magic of Christmas when an unemployed father feels the social pressure to buy gifts for his children at that time of the year? Not to mention the shopping new clothes.
The hallaca is saved a little in all this manifesto. Nothing more autochthonous than that tamale wrapped in banana leaves. I know that writing this is not going to stop the machinery. I am not going to steal Christmas or subtract your desires to celebrate it. But I feel that male grinchs and female grinchs need a brave voice. I know that positivity is appreciated in this community and everything has to be nice. Maybe many people will find this post distasteful and even ban me for spreading a hateful message. I don't know. Let's see how much the right to free will is respected.
P.D.: Jesús no nació el 25 de diciembre. Fue una fecha colocada a dedo para sustituir una celebración pagana de bacanales y orgías. Eso lo sabe mucha gente, si no lo sabía, ahora sí.
PS: Jesus was not born on December 25. It was a date that was hand-picked to replace a pagan celebration of bacchanals and orgies. Many people know that, if you did not know it, now you do.
Atentamente: Orlando Cordero. Paladín amargado cuyo escudo es un corazón de dos tallas menos.
Sincerely yours: Orlando Cordero. Bitter paladin whose shield is a heart two sizes too small.
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