The war against Christmas and the legacy Western culture it represents rages on.
Here’s the news from the front.
Social Justice™ left rallies around Christmas tree arson
“nihilistgf” (“nihilist girlfriend”) — who describes zherself (don’t want to assume gendered pronouns) as “𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙. 𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖎𝖉𝖚𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙. 𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖘-𝖊𝖌𝖔𝖎𝖘𝖙. 𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙-𝖑𝖊𝖋𝖙” — posted an image of a Christmas tree on fire with the caption “rt this if you support the anarchist war on christmas. [sic]”
rt this if you support the anarchist war on christmas. 🌲🔥 pic.twitter.com/meCVL748JQ
— 𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖌𝖋 🏴☠️ (@nihilistgf161) December 11, 2023
Here’s the thing: I get the gleeful, nihilistic, adolescent impulse to drop a giant proverbial turd in the punch bowl of society. That’s what hardcore punk of the '80s, a genre that shaped my worldview in my teens and twenties, was all about.
A healthy, dynamic culture actually does have a subversive element to it that challenges orthodoxy, complemented by a reactionary conservative element that suppresses revolutionary change of the sort seen in China’s Cultural Revolution that totally devastated its culture perhaps forever. Thus, society evolves over time as it must to avert becoming an anachronism, yet stability is maintained in the process. Balance in all things is a benefit.
But the current crop of so-called “dissident” voices (at least they ignorantly fancy themselves dissident; in reality, the power structure at war with legacy America artificially props them up as cultural arsonists) have none of the aforementioned joyful, anarchistic glee.
Instead, they are transparently fueled by pathogenic hatred and resentment of everything and so find an outlet in destroying literally anything that people find meaning or value in.
Because they have no values themselves, and no hope of finding any, they jealously seek to destroy that which provides value to others — in this case, a Christmas tree — so as to bring everyone down to their level.
This is the only logical, maximalist culmination of leftist orthodoxy stretched to its limit.
Hardcore Texas Christmas performance
No one goes as hard on Christmas as Texas evangelical mega-congregations.
TX Mega Church at Christmas pic.twitter.com/pEyAYqrTI0
— playteaux (@playteaux) December 10, 2023
Listen, Jack, dog-faced pony soldier, I don’t want to commit any malarkey and get all holier-than-thou on a moral high horse about acceptable and unacceptable ways to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
I wouldn’t assume the moral authority to dictate the parameters of Christmas celebrations.
But if it looks like a hybrid Ringling Bros. production/hair metal concert, you might have veered slightly from the original intended meaning of the holiday.
Are we doing pacifying entertainment for the masses or spiritual enlightenment?
I’ve never quite understood the appeal of mega-churches — usually run by hucksters making bank off of the Word of God — and I can’t imagine Jesus being super on board with them, but whatever. I don’t think they should be illegal or anything.
Jill Biden’s unreal White House décor
I use the term “décor” loosely.
PJ Media’s Vodkapundit covered this yesterday.
Jill Biden, the party responsible, describes it as “a bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.”
A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) December 13, 2023
Enjoy! 💕 pic.twitter.com/qXtCm4t37o
Alternatively, in my eyes, this is like a Social Justice™-tinted salvia trip from hell.
(Salvia is a hallucinogenic Mexican plant once sold over-the-counter to anyone with a government ID in my home state of Georgia in headshops statewide, often in concentrations exceeding 30x, which may have been ill-advised given its extremely potent effects. Were one to drive after ripping a salvia-packed bong, one would surely die.)
