In Defense of Christmas Consumerism

In Defense of Christmas Consumerism - RELEVANT

In Defense of Christmas Consumerism ... Villains despise Christmas. Scrooge found it a poor excuse to pick a man's pocket. The noise, noise, noise ...

Why I'm curbing my Christmas consumerism — even though ...

To put myself in context, I keep thinking of a 2019 report that found the U.S. military to be “one of the largest climate polluters in ...

Consumerism Christmas – the sustainability dilemma - The Guardian

It is our job as a consumer to stop focusing on gift giving, or if you feel the compunction to give, then give foods that the recipient will want and eat. Also, ...

Christmas is coming up and thus a splurge of consumerism... - Reddit

modern rampant consumerism and commercialisation has completely diluted the real point of Christmas time. It's just a spend fest. People get ...

Don't catch the Christmas consumerism craze - the Epic

“The Christmas culture pressures people to give a gift to others in order to show that they care about them,” sophomore Shovan Jagadev said. “ ...

Consumerism's effect on Christmas isn't entirely negative

Indeed, there are many components of the consumerist aspect of modern-day Christmas that make the holiday season stressful for many, and it's ...

How to save Christmas from consumerism | Grist

In many cases, holiday buying habits are driven by a need to meet imagined expectations, an attempt to bring happiness to loved ones. While ...

Christmas consumerism – The Western Howl

With every passing year, Christmas decorations begin to appear in stores across the country earlier and earlier, screaming — buy me.

A weak defense of the consumer's Christmas | Times & Seasons

What I love about all the “evil consumerism” of Christmas is that it is people making purchases of excess to give them away. To me that isn't ...

In Defense of Consumerism | Lone Conservative

The American tradition of a commercialized Christmas derives not from the decadence of an increasingly secular society but from America's ...

Defence of Christmas Consumerism - Urban Departures

What's wrong with buying gifts during the holiday season? Some Scrooges extol the virtues of holiday abstinence and have given up gift giving all together. To ...

Holiday shopping is a moral good - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Consumerism at Christmas — and the capitalist system that spawned it — benefits all of us.

Why we should celebrate capitalism and consumerism, at Christmas ...

Consumerism has often been criticized for being too materialistic, and especially so at Christmas. Now we can see why this criticism is mistaken ...

The Spiritual Side of Christmas Consumerism - Meridian Magazine

Many of us grapple with the opposite worry too—feeling concerned about too many presents and too much focus on those presents … coming away ...

Democrats aren't at war with Christmas, the dollar is - USA Today

We shouldn't think of the “Happy Holidays” movement as a deliberate means of undercutting religious faith or Christmas itself; rather, this ...

Opting Out of Consumerism at Christmas - No Sidebar

Here are 6 ways to choose Christmas, not consumerism: · 1. Question your purchases · 2. Practice detachment through generosity · 3. Focus on people, not ...

All I want for Christmas is a lower rate of consumption - The Guardian

When I was a child unwrapping of Christmas presents in the 1950s my Grandmother's disapproval of the cornucopia of colouring books, jigsaw ...

Christmas is for Consumerism - Jets Flyover

The ornaments, presents, cakes, and even socks and other decorative elements to Christmas came from the idea that money should be spent in order to truly ...

Has capitalism devoured Christmas? - The Washington Post

Christmas comes once a year, but it highlights a larger question: Does capitalism, and the consumerism it enables, have adverse effects on the ...

How (+ Why) I Opt Out of Christmas | Treading My Own Path

Find Christmas a little overwhelming? The stuff, the consumerism, the food waste, the single-use packaging, the general excess?

James Tracy

American author

James Richard Tracy is an American author, poet and activist living in Oakland, California. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.