25/12/2003
The commercialization of Christmas
Johan Norberg has a nice quotation of Ayn Rand about the joys of Christmas:
"The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying…stimulates an enormous outpouring of ingenuity in the creation of products devoted to a single purpose: to give men pleasure. And the street-decorations put up by the department stores and other institutions – the Christmas trees, the winking lights, the glittering colors – provide the city with a spectacular display, which only "commercial greed" could afford to give us. One would have to be terribly depressed to resist the wonderful gaiety of that spectacle."
So, happy Christmas!
PS. Speaking of Johan Norberg, you can read an interview with him here. And buy his book: In defense of global capitalism.
A spirited Christmas gift!
UPDATE: Dan Drezner has more good news about Christmas and commercialism (or capitalism, if you will). In Eastern Europe they are bringing the commercialization of Christmas into practise. Good for them.
Gepost door/Posted by: Ivan
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