Santa is Evil

From 2007

You are asking yourself, "He's not going to attack Santa is he?" Well, yes I am as a matter of fact. No one is above my rants and raves as you should know by now. Just know that my opinions have merit and have been well thought out overtime. If you follow me long enough, you will see where I am coming from.

Santa or the Santa myth is evil. Telling our kids there is a fat, jolly old man is another way to control, and also crush our kids. As a matter of fact, it even causes the parents problems as you will see in my final argument.

First, we use it as control. How many times have you heard a parent tell their kids if they are not good, then Santa will not come this year? I am sure even as a kid, you, yourself was told that a time or two. This is the same bullshit I talked about in the religion article, using the fear of something to control the minds of others. Are you not good enough parents to make your kid behave, that you have to use a mythical character to control them? It is sad really if you think about it.

Now, what about the day he or she finds out that Santa does not exist? (Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny fall in this category to) You know how crushing that is to these kids? Years and years you have instilled in them that he actually exists, and then WHAM, now he don't.

I remember I was like 8 or 9 and I found a present I had asked for under my own bed of all things.(My Mom was not great at hiding presents I guess) Anyway, I did not say nothing and on Christmas Day it was inside of my stocking. I asked her if she put that in there, and she said that Santa did. I confronted her and the truth came out. What a crushing day for me, and on Christmas of all days. Merry Fucking Christmas huh? 9 years of complete lies. 9 years of writing a letter to no one. 9 years of going to the mall and seeing some bullshit man dressed up like Santa and sitting on his lap. It was all a damn lie and it ruined my world on that day. Thanks Mom!

Now for you parents, it causes problems as well living this lie, just like living any lie for that matter. Now taking them to see the fake Santa is cute and good for pictures. Also letting them write the letters and what not is also kind of cute I would say as well. What I am talking about is when you get that list and cannot deliver. You tell them to ask Santa for whatever they want and he will deliver. Well what if you cannot deliver? Do you want to see your kid disappointed on Christmas when he opens all his gifts but the one he really wanted is not there? This is what causes problems.

Besides the pouty faces on Christmas morning, you parents have to fight and fend off other parents who have kids asking for the same thing. You always see a list in the paper or on the internet about the HOT items of the year. People rush out in major waves to get to these items. Pushing, shoving, even shooting each other this year I seen. I mean, in the spirit of Christmas we are shooting people now for toys and what not? It is so sickening to me. If you cannot give you kid that toy this year without beating up or shooting someone, then your kid does not need it and will have to wait. You built up this Santa thing so heavily, that you want to come through for your child at all costs.

Well, I disagree with all of that from these problems I have shown you that Santa causes. Now do not get me wrong, I will be one of those parents who tell them about Santa, but mainly because of my son’s mother and not because I believe in lying to him. I want my son to know the truth about all things, and know how life really is instead of making up fairy tales that will inevitably crush him later in life. I just do not understand the logic in it. That goes for a lot of things we tell our kids that most of the time is not true. Life is more complicated than that, and I believe they should know how the world really works instead of living in fantasy land. We created a world of lies including this one for our children for our own happiness and not theirs. We want to see their faces when they see Santa. We want to smile when they write that letter. What about them though? Oh, they will be excited until their 9 when you crush their world with your lie. Merry Christmas huh?