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A Commercial Christmas: Here’s to Celebrating 200 Years of Bemoaning Capitalism

This entry was posted in babble and tagged Capitalism, Christmas, Christmas sales, Consumerism, Happy Holidays, Holiday, language, language learning, Sales, twilight zone, words on December 18, 2017 by Kelly .
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The complaint that Christmas has lost its meaning to consumerism, capitalism, and overindulgence is almost as much an annual tradition as the event itself; not that such complaints necessarily mean we won’t try to outdo ourselves year upon year, of course. But the nature of these complaints isn’t new, and neither is the language we(…)

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