Two causes for you all
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals
- Singing is not a good way to celebrate a holiday, especially Christmas and extra especially Christmas in a pandemic.
- The saying "Christmas is about giving, not getting" is only partially right. Yes, it's important to give, but you shouldn't give people things only to be self-righteous about things because then you're basically doing it only to feel good about yourself. Give because you want to make someone else feel good. And to that extent, Christmas is kind of about getting, but it's making sure you acknowledge those who have given something to you. I feel like it's about acknowledging the gifts others give you outside of this time of year which is the most important. I dunno, I just feel like if you're only giving someone a gift on Christmas, no matter what the gift is (material, experiences, assistance, etc.), wouldn't it be better to give year round?
- And to that extent, fuck the song "Do they know it's Christmas" by Band Aid. You know the song, it goes "FEEEED THE WOOOORLD, LET THEM KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME AGAIN",. Like what buddy, first you think that you want to help, from your perspective, some damn primitive caveman in Africa who doesn't know what Christmas is? So you're gonna give some fifth-world country person a nice can of beans because they don't know it's Christmas? What can they not tell time? you think Africa isn't at least somewhat capable of telling time? Is the entire continent of Africa so underdeveloped that they aren't even able to distinguish days, months and years? Also, you're only giving because it's Christmas time? Like if you're gonna be all high-and-mighty about how you want to feed the world, but only given at Christmas time, buddy lemme tell ya there are 364.25 other days in the year, you think that they don't need to be fed those days too? It's so ridiculous that this song seems to think that because it's one day in winter that THIS is the day to give. the day to give is every day when you're able to. Fuck this stupid excuse of a Christmas song. It completely misses the point of the season. I mean good lord, this is a lyric in the song "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time" like WHAT. I know the song's from literally 1984, but my God it's imperialistic as fuck. And yeah I know that many of the proceeds from this song went to assist with famines in Ethiopia which is a fine cause to support, but to keep using this for a soundtrack to help feed the less fortunate at the holiday times is so fucking stupid.
Merry Christmas ya filthy animals
