4 effs sake

christmas time is just around the bend, and it seemed like a proper time to conjure up a new blog. like most pseudo christian, i start feeling the christmas spirit this time of year. but what really is this christmas spirit that everyone seems to get? and why come we succumb to it so swiftly? in light of my new aged outlook, i felt as though there should be a simple answer to this question. I don't want to sound cliche' and start talking about the marketing geniuses that comprise the mass sell of selling. but instead focus on the sellers of the spirit in itself.
adults are the #1 consumers of this make believe entity. unlike believing in santa himself, we adults believe that kids need to be coerced into believing the magic of christmas. many speculate that a child's exposure to impossibilities will multiply the child's left brain activity, thus spawning a different breed of adults. ones with broader imaginations, or an out of the box thinkers so to speak. the paradox of this is that in adult-land, they hate anybody that won't fit the mold of the average. normality is human nature. its like a bird already knowing how to spread its wings and fly.
so, why do most parents put kids through this torture? is this a path that every child needs to take in order to ease into the so-called "reality". in the movie "the matrix", neo has a hard time adjusting to the "real world". morpheaus gently tells him that it is hard for an adult to take such harsh reality, and it's much easier for a kid to adjust to the brutal concept of reality. so, why don't parents just skip the foreplay and tell the kids from early on that santa is as real as a unicorn shooting marshmallow farts. wouldn't the innocent child be more sculpted for the real world in his/her midst?
now, the reality is, I have no fucking clue where i'm going with this. it seems as though i broke my train of thought by thinking far too much. the irony in all this is that if i would have been a more avid thinker, i wouldn't have run into this sort of conundrum. so let me just end by saying, to be continued..... maybe...