{"id":6632,"date":"2011-12-04T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2011-12-04T00:40:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T00:40:30","slug":"shouldnt-it-be-occupyholiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/shouldnt-it-be-occupyholiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn&#8217;t it be OccupyHoliday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/284646\/shouldn-t-it-be-occupyholiday-andrew-stuttaford\">Corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/Next+target+Christmas+Occupy+guru\/5751889\/story.html\">Via the <em>Vancouver Sun<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OTTAWA \u2014 Adbusters, the Vancouver-based magazine that inspired the worldwide Occupy movement, has a new target: Christmas. Calling its campaign OccupyXmas, the anti-capitalist magazine is calling on consumers to buy nothing for Christmas this year\u2026Christmas, Lasn  [the magazine\u2019s founder] said, has been hijacked by commercial forces. \u201cIt\u2019s been an empty, soulless kind of ritual that very, very few people enjoy. This is a chance for us occupiers to take Christmas back and have a bit of fun and remind people that Christmas can be a helluva lot more than just shopping and Black Fridays and maxing out on your credit card.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cVery, very few.\u201d Really?<\/p>\n<p>And just when you think that Lasn cannot get more patronizing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lasn said antagonizing people is what the Occupy movement is all about. \u201cIt\u2019s about antagonizing people and slapping them around a little bit and waking them up to reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Buy Nothing Christmas just sounds good, Lasn said. But what it really means is a different kind of Christmas, one that puts \u201cthe spiritual side of Christmas back in the game rather than the consumption.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What humbug. I wouldn\u2019t describe myself as retail\u2019s best friend, but Christmas has evolved a bit over the centuries. The spiritual side is there for those who want it, the consumer splurge is there for those who want that (and there\u2019s room for plenty in-between). As for me, I\u2019ll opt for the made-in-Dickens variety, a marvelous, syncretic festival of food, drink, family, good cheer, nostalgia, tradition and, yes, a present or two.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6636\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/458_458px-A_Christmas_Carol_-_Mr__Fezziwig_s_Ball1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6636\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/458_458px-A_Christmas_Carol_-_Mr__Fezziwig_s_Ball1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"458_458px-A_Christmas_Carol_-_Mr__Fezziwig_s_Ball\" width=\"458\" height=\"599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/458_458px-A_Christmas_Carol_-_Mr__Fezziwig_s_Ball1.jpg 458w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/458_458px-A_Christmas_Carol_-_Mr__Fezziwig_s_Ball1-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food, Drink,  Dancing & Other Christmas Horrors <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner. Via the Vancouver Sun: OTTAWA \u2014 Adbusters, the Vancouver-based magazine that inspired the worldwide Occupy movement, has a new target: Christmas. Calling its campaign OccupyXmas, the anti-capitalist magazine is calling on consumers to buy nothing for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/shouldnt-it-be-occupyholiday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[871,27,659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}