Wednesday, December 24, 2008

CHRISTMA$

Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as "materialistic"; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) that no one takes seriously.
That's Leonard Peikoff on the commercialization of Christmas. You can read the entire article here.