Did religion join forces with businesses to end the year with gift-giving to become a joyous commercial holiday?
It is the final business quarter, uniquely coinciding with a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of "Jesus." Yet, commercial profits have become the reason for the season.
A supposed religious time for everyone to be kind to one another for six weeks of joy from Thanksgiving to New Years Day. A season for profits and the prophets who predict a robust 4th quarter.
Commercials are a frenzy enticing, tempting, and encouraging, humans, to give gifts while never giving of themselves. The subliminal propaganda soliciting your money to increase the margin of return and dividend checks is the real reason for the season.
If only these six weeks of joy were daily, weekly, and monthly instead of an enticement for people to give for tax purposes.
The joy of the season should be shared by all for the profits of goodwill, harmony, and love.
Humanity has evolved to worship the joy of profits for a commercial holiday?