As I write the Christmas lights are being put up in Barking town centre. It's a cliché to say they go up earlier every year (though I do think it was 'only' a month before Christmas last year) and I daresay the words "bah humbug" will be dusted off, but this 'Disneytide' is just a rather pathetic attempt to stimulate the cycle of consumption.
Commercial enterprises are trying to "make money", but they can't. Only banks make money - the rest of us just pass it around. All the shops trying to get money off you this 'Disneytide' are going to give a fair proportion of it to their staff as wages, so that they can go off and give it to another enterprise who will give it to their staff and so on.
I'm not being a Puritan - people should enjoy Christmas, but just step back and think what it is you really want for yourself, your fellow human beings and - crucially - the planet. There will be people who wake up hungry and die before the next time they should be going to sleep again. What is it we're trying to achieve?
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