I spammed the hell out of twitter and now I feel a vague remorse. But Christmas is the one day of the year where I’m really not supposed to work or I can’t because of all the stupid distractions and gift giving.

I pretty much hate Christmas. More than that, I hate atheists and agnostics and their self-indulgent, self-congratulatory buying orgy. Christmas is disgusting. The one day of the year people can get pissy if you don’t give them what they want. Socially mandated generosity. How putrid. Christmas, as it is practised in Canada and elsewhere by soulless consumer zombies, makes me hate the human race. At no other time of the year does my childhood longing to wake up from the nightmare of being a human being in order to find out that I’m really a robot planted on earth by advanced aliens to observe these ridiculous talking apes.

Anyway, Christmas is just kind of stupid. And it’s only a symptom of wider degeneracy in a culture of self-absorption, self-entitlement and self pity. How do we not go insane and kill one another in droves? How many people actually have meaningful lives doing meaningful work? We’re most of us all slaves to laziness, gluttony and all the rest of the qualities of our baser natures. Spoilt children! Cowards! Toadies! And yet we’re so pleased with ourselves. Crowing about our pathetic accomplishments and gloating over our stacks of material garbage or engaging in endless and pointless tribal rituals. It’s so low. It’s so disgusting. I am overwhelmed with disgust on this day more than any other day of the year. It makes me sick.

Of course there are exceptions. There are a few people trying, in their way, to encourage responsibility, thoughtfulness, self-restraint and other qualities without which we will inevitably destroy our culture, our heritage, our self-esteem, our environment and ultimately ourselves. But they are so easy to ignore, or to mock, or discount. Their message can be distorted, bastardized, taken out of context, or drowned out with the noise of a billion televisions and computer screens. Youtube is all we need to be happy. Or a nice Santa Claus hat. That’s what life is really about, isn’t it? Fat men wearing funny hats giving out free presents? What more could you possibly want?