The Worst Time of Year in USA Has Arrived: Stores Continuously Play Christmas Songs.....

[Ion Saliu]

It’s only the beginning of November and the stores and shopping malls in America already started to play Christmas Carols and all those Christmas songs. The beginning of November is known as Indian summer around here! It’s definitely crappy music to my ears — but that’s not the point. You can listen to them in the privacy of your home for as long as you like. De gustibus non disputandum …

I am not saying that one is insane if listening to the same music again, and again, and again... In fact, I listen a lot to classical music and classic rock in the privacy of my place of living. Several neighbors of mine have already complained that I have not played my music more often and more loudly. But, then again, it’s not my point here.

The point is: MANIACAL BEHAVIOR IN CLINICAL TERMS.

Sane behavior would be playing that Christmas music in public places on Christmas Day only. I — and millions of reasonable humans — would not complain. Even if it’s public — I don’t give a damn. It’s only one day — and I can easily defend my system by going away from that stuff of yours that I consider stinky crap….

My last workplace was predominantly populated by older women. They strongly claimed allegiance to their Christian faith! Forget about other religious faiths — it’s not my point. Forget that people like me, atheists, who no longer stand that musical crap. It’s not crap, I always say. I was in similar situations when I was much younger. We played religious songs in the Christmas season, especially in drinking parties.

So, those old female colleagues of mine — wonderful persons, for the most part — would do something that would sicken me. It made me drink heavily soon after I got home from work! They would organize extremely religiously-celebratory parties at work just before Thanksgiving Day and going all the way to Christmas. If dozens of people pool together their food in a celebration, the smell is UNBEARABLE to most persons.

Many others told me the same thing. But, then again, people don’t complain mainly for fear from losing their employment. There is no other reason why people subject themselves to that smelly torture….

They say it’s good marketing to play the music of the dominant religion during the holidays of the dominant religion. I don’t think so. I believe it is bad marketing. Perhaps most Jewish economic surveyors have come to the same conclusion. I am not Jewish and I don’t found my theories on any religion or ethnicity. But, as many Jews own jewelry stores in shopping malls across America, they surely want playing of Christmas songs — music always brings in potential customers! As if them Jews had given birth to Mozart or Beethoven! Well, this is only to cool down those in the Occupy Wall Street movements who accused me of being a … Zionist!

Back from the digression. Them old women at my last workplace were in the habit of playing Christmas songs every day, continuously, during the workweek leading to Christmas! We always had free time (holidays) on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It was 8 hours of torture a day — most of my colleagues had the same feeling, although expressed in a more employment-positive manner. Listening to that unworthy music for 8 hours a day, for an average of 3.5 days a week! There are not many records of Christmas music. The repetition of one song came to about 4.5 times a day! What a torture! I remember one colleague saying to another: “Just one more day to bear…”

But, then again, it’s not my point.

The point is that such practice in a workplace leads to BAD results economics-wise. The company had the worst problems during that period. The company printed yearbooks for schools and universities. The results were terrible! A sales representative who handled many schools on the U.S. East Coast sent an angry email. “I don’t care about your Christmas celebrations, guys, but you do a legally-devastating job with our yearbooks!” Something like that…

I was the most displeased by that maniacal practice during the Christian holidays at the end of a year. Yet, I made the fewest mistakes. One of my old female colleagues told me that I should have made the most mistakes! In fact, I was the one who pointed out the most mistakes … made by my colleagues! The secret is I always murmured a kind of mantra, mostly silently, in my mid. It was an Indonesian sacred chant I wrote about years ago:

“Aiai, ouou
Aiaoua, aiaoua
Aiaoua, ai.”

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Walmart sounds like the worst culprit. They offer employment to many elderly persons who otherwise would not survive (just based on their social security). You ought to be commended for that, Walmart! But, very wrongly, you assume that most customers of Walmart are OLD. That is, old white Christian Americans who love to hear that “wonderful” Christian music — even if played two months before the term!

IF YOU THINK SO, YOU ARE INSANE, WALMARTERS (bad executives, that is!) Most customers are displeased to disgust being subjected to your imposed music — not only non-Christian. Just look at your regular customers — several races, ages, and religions. I don’t think those Korean customers are real Christians! Say nothing of them Middle Easterners who are most likely Muslim — if they are religious! How about that white, blue-eyed family who is truly atheistic? I saw a teacher’s car (2010) whose bumper sticker read: “When religion ruled the world, it was called Dark Ages.”

Pray for the poor souls who work at Walmart this time of year! A two-month long period of mental torture….

Tough I am … and right … just I am! This is the most effective method of dealing with terrible phenomena. I call my method reductio ad absurdum. Actually, it is common in the science of logic. Instead of analyzing the entire theory you want to dismiss as invalid, you only focus on the worst parts of that theory or practice you oppose and want to negate. You want to prove the absurdity, first and foremost.

I am not sure if I wanna shop in a physical store again before the beginning of next year, 2012. I shop mostly online. Food is a totally different matter. Should I look for Jewish or Muslim food stores in my area? There is a big problem there: I cannot eat mutton (sheep, the Americans say). Also, looks like the Jewish and the Muslims have holidays that coincide with Christian holidays. They all might play their religious songs at the same American time … two months before the act, that is …

Two months of mental torturing till next year … this day and age … when economics is so much more important than the religious stupidity! Instead, the U.S. Congress debated and passed a decision to legitimize the usage of God on the U.S. dollar! To many, that political action looked more like mockery of Reason, an act of defiance!

Meanwhile, people, including American military veterans, have no place to live and no-sure meal. They, including American military veterans, have no survival means but beg. They were hurt, including mentally, and they were discharged.

Civilians at home will not give the veterans a chance — “If a military, you must live as a military forever — or, else, die in the war!” That’s very much what a young U.S. military veteran beggar told me at the exit to the highway of the Gettysburg Walmart store. “I was wounded in Iraq, but not badly. I wanted to continue … but I was honorably discharged …”

Perhaps he was around 25 years of age — a white young man, green-eyed, about 5-foot-8. A few other shoppers, behind me, offered him some money. We missed maybe 2 or 3 green traffic lights. The wounded hero (sorry … hero is taken as an offense by the U.S. military veterans returning home from war!) … apologized. That was one of the biggest shocks in my life! You risk your life to serve your nation and humanity — and you have no choice, if coming home alive, but beg — and you apologize because those who humanly responded to your begging missed a green traffic light!

I am really overwhelmed now … I admit, I haven’t seen many countries. But I’ve never seen more beggars than in the land of the brave — United States of America. The authorities, in cooperation with the Walmarts of the world, fight very hard the BEGGARS now. And most beggars are recent military veterans, who fought in two wars.

Damn it, America, for that! Especially when I hear that clinically-founded insanity of playing Christmas songs two months before the “day of joy”! At least, you must allow the United States military veterans beg on your properties! You, the enriched fat-cats, don’t have to give your money. But, at least, allow hearted Christians, and non-Christians, and Atheists, help their brothers and sisters. Them brothers and sisters put their lives on the line to secure a safe world, where the Walmarts of the world would employ miserably cheap labor in the Chinas of the world. But who made that world possible? It was them veterans in crutches that you enjoy hitting in their crotches …

“I dream of a white Christmas …”

That’s more like a two-month long nightmare. The Pennsylvania State Lottery already started to run their 25-year old TV advertisement. The ad shows people costumed as Santa Klaus and singing a … Christmas Carol (The Twelve Days of Christmas)! “Merry Christmas, Rita!” is one line in the lottery TV ad! The Pennsylvania State Lottery added a new TV advertisement this November. The ad features a groundhog singing Jingle Bell! The groundhog is dressed as … Santa Klautz!

Who said madness was not contagious? Mercedes-Benz also started its own TV advertising campaign for Christmas. The ads feature luxury cars for … Santa Krautz!

Ion Saliu

[Ion Saliu]

I went to the very Walmart store I was sickened in beginning November 2011. At that time (November 4), they were playing Christmas songs continuously … as if it were Christmas Day …. December 25th, that is! Children wanted to leave for home immediately! A teenage boy was almost crying to his parents: “Let’s get out of here … I’ve had enough!” His blue-collar father comforted him sarcastically: “Remember, boy! Walmart offers the best shopping experience … right?”

Today, November 23, 2011, I covered all four extremities of the Walmart store in Hanover, Pennsylvania. It was quiet all over … no more Christmas songs. I entered especially because I wanted to hear how … badly the Carols sounded! Ye know, it was just one day before Thanksgiving! The Christmas songs should have sounded a whole lot louder!

But it was ABSOLUTELY QUIET musically! A great classic-rock song — Aqualung by Jethro Tull — has a great line: “I hear the silence howler …”

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The Walmart employees should not thank anybody. But, just as friendly advice, we all can do a whole lot of good if we protest against bad things. We don’t need to protest violently, not even vehemently, against badly conceived policies. Just mildly, repeated by many humans over sustained periods of times — will do. Humans in power (we all are Homo sapiens) fear repeated protests, regardless how mild the protests are! Mild opposition always turns out to feel as feared revengeful destruction in the near future! The powerful give up unwarranted terror of the weak …

Good for them Walmart employees! Their two-month nightmare is over — they can sleep and dream normally now …

I saw a TV advertisement to my liking, one might say … sarcastically. Honda sarcastically show a TV ad dedicated to the … Christmas shopping season. The spokesman wonders why a company would need Christmas ads … if the products were good! But he is aware of “reality”:

“Pressure drives a man to do desperate things …”

So, he pushes a button that starts a … Christmas video! Clownish Santas start jumping and summer-salting in all circus manners! The spokesperson then admits, still sarcastically:

“By now, you are already out the door … “

Happy Thanksgiving … non-musically!

Ion Saliu,
Santa Dracula At-Large