The Santa Simulation: Why The Holidays Feel Fake.
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Does Christmas feel less like a holiday and more like a deadline?
In this holiday anti-special, we peel back the wrapping paper on the "most wonderful time of the year" to reveal the capitalist engine underneath. We aren't just being Grinches—we are analyzing how a religious and social tradition was systematically replaced by a financial imperative.
If you feel stressed, broke, or empty this December, it’s not you. It’s the simulation.
We cover:
The Invention of Tradition: How Coca-Cola designed Santa and department stores invented Rudolph.
The Elf Myth: Applying Karl Marx’s "Commodity Fetishism" to Santa’s Workshop.
The Gift Trap: Why Marcel Mauss’s theory of the "Gift Economy" explains your holiday anxiety.
Simulation Theory: Why we care more about the aesthetic of Christmas than the reality.
Key Takeaways:
Why "nostalgia" is just affection for old marketing campaigns.
How to opt out of the "Potlatch" of competitive gifting.
Escaping the "Capitalist Realism" of Q4.
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