Episode 17 - The War On Christmas
In 2005 a War On Christmas resurfaced, and took the News Media by storm. Seemingly driven by political correctness, or the frustration thereof, many have drawn political lines seeing the omission of the term “Christmas” in holiday greetings as an assault on the conservative Christian aspects of this holiday season, while other observances, such as Hanukkah and Kwanza are apparently left unscathed. While Christmas, as most of us would recognize it, is a rather modern rendition, the evolution of the Christmas holiday and, in fact the festive observance of the winter season entirely, goes back millenia. Theories abound about the specific religious underpinnings of Christmas, as well as origins of many traditions and iconography of the season. And history shows us that Christmas has been under attack for a long time. In fact, Christmas as we know it, may very well be a conspired invention itself to replace the untamed observance that preceded it.
Ultimately, we celebrate Christmas and the holiday season as we, individually have always observed it, and we do find any attempt to change our perspective extremely upsetting. Well, there seems to be some psychology behind Christmas that might just explain it.
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Links:
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/liberty-chronicles/christmas-conspiracy
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/War_on_Christmas
https://medium.com/crobox/the-psychology-of-christmas-a3fbccd93197
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversies
https://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/12/19/when-did-christmas-become-so-commercial/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/us/war-on-christmas-controversy.html
https://www.influenceatwork.com/dr-robert-cialdini-on-the-principle-of-reciprocity/
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/201311/what-does-nostalgia-do
http://www.directcreative.com/influence-and-persuasion-the-rule-of-consistency.html
http://www.emotionlab.se/mechanisms-of-social-avoidance-learning-can-explain-the-emergence-of-adaptive-and-arbitrary-behavioral-traditions-in-humans-3/
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/the-puritan-war-on-christmas.html
https://erenow.com/common/the-battle-for-christmas/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_It%27s_Cold_Outside
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