Christmas in the USA feels more like a ritual celebration of postwar material prosperity to be honest

Like it feels like it's as much a part of American historical mythmaking as Independence Day or Thanksgiving

Doesn't matter that this prosperity was mostly a white people thing because it's more about the mythos than the historical facts

i mean... look no further than christmas' most fervent defenders. the ones who are concerned at the imagined loss of compulsory christmas. the starbucks cup culture warriors. who is it they feel they're defending christmas from? what are they trying to preserve when christmas is over? if not this, then what?

[POD PERSON SCREECHING]

I like the idea of LaTeX, and it certainly can look very nice when used well, but I gather it’s a lot of work to maintain, it gets very sweaty…