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Christmas is that sacred time of year when Americans of all colors, creeds and classes band together to ensure the survival of the American way of life, consumerist capitalism; it is that time of year when Americans focus on their families, and not on the families they're starving, separating, and killing on the other side of the world, and on the other side of the tracks.
Here are two odes to Christmas in America. The first was written by Timbuk 3, the second by Jackson Browne. Both are performed by Jackson Browne and Bruce Cockburn.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS (IS WORLD PEACE)
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Transformers, Super Heroes
Thundercats in cast iron clothes
Rocket fingers, laser eyes
Cannon mouths and missile toes
Santa's helpers from on high
Secret sponsors place their bids
Your donation helps to buy
GI Joes for Contra kids
All I want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas
Is world peace
Rock lord masters of disaster
Detonate the ghetto blaster
And little black Rambo metal choir
Sings deck the halls with great balls of fire
It looks to me like World War III
Underneath the Christmas tree
Please dear Santa, Mr. Santa please
Can't you make the firing cease?
All I want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas
Is world peace
A monster satellite TV
Sends Season's Greetings from afar
Star Wars I and II and III
Chestnuts roasting on the VCR
All I want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas
All I want for Christmas
Is world peace
THE REBEL JESUS
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All the streets are filled with laughter and light
And the music of the season
And the merchants' windows are all bright
With the faces of the children
And the families hurrying to their homes
As the sky darkens and freezes
Will be gathering around the hearths and tables
Giving thanks for God's graces
And the birth of the rebel Jesus
Well they call him by 'the Prince of Peace'
And they call him by 'the Savior'
And they pray to him upon the seas
And in every bold endeavor
And they fill his churches with their pride and gold
As their faith in him increases
But they've turned the nature that I worship in
From a temple to a robber's den
In the words of the rebel Jesus
We guard our world with locks and guns
And we guard our fine possessions
And once a year when Christmas comes
We give to our relations
And perhaps we give a little to the poor
If the generosity should seize us
But if any one of us should interfere
In the business of why there are poor
They get the same as the rebel Jesus
But pardon me if I have seemed
To take the tone of judgment
For I've no wish to come between
This day and your enjoyment
In a life of hardship and of earthly toil
There's a need for anything that frees us
So I bid you pleasure
And I bid you cheer
From a heathen and a pagan
On the side of the rebel JesusLabels: Bruce Cockburn, Capitalism, Christmas, Consumerism, Jackson Browne
 
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1 Comments:
I wonder what people working in sweatshops think, as they glue together more fetid plastic crap to send us for our great 'Christian' festival of Christmas. How does that speak to their souls?
Then I wonder, how do I enable this monster?
This year, I have started, and will continue (with God's help) to reduce my consumption this time of year. It has to stop, and I am repenting of my past, and devising a way forward.
www.buynothingchristmas.org
Has some good resources.
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