You know, I'm an incurable troublemaker. But at least I do it with sympathy. It is why the story to say: "No I do not care about Christmas, it's just a gimmick commercial" - simply does not hold. It 's like to have the presumption to disclose to a child that Santa Claus does not exist and realize with surprise that the child already knew everything, pretending to "not knowing" just to make us happy and get adults gifts. We can not do without the pretense, the costume of the initiation rite: s exchange gifts, but let's do it with these damn knowledge. Forget being the most good (that is, a ploy to delude ourselves that in our Western society can be a kind of strategy-ethics-of-consumption that allows us to do charity by buying goods "Fair & "...) and Solidarity never mind the "spirit of Christmas." What in philosophy is called zeitgeist (spirit of the time), Christmas is ridiculous extremes and pasteurize the nth power. I mean, on the eve morning I saw an Indian go around the bars in the city to sell a rug to 500 € (later lowered at 50!). Hanging out with the rolled-up carpet on his shoulder, trying to crush with a bazooka, missed the last survivor of the war on purchases. I read in a book: "It 's fun at moments of obligation, that we realize their folly" - sounds more or less so in recent days. The clashes in the streets, the garbage, the cuts, the lies: it seems all but disappeared under un'anestetizzante blanket of gifts that propels us into a coma-drug boom until New Year's Eve (the largest prime TG5 that offers a service as not overdo it with the makeup on that fateful night). To give you a vivid picture of all my thoughts, I refer you to the story "The Last New Year's humanity" contained in Mud di Niccolò Ammaniti (aka il regalo che ho fatto a mio fratello). Un racconto corale e brutale di un ultimo dell'anno alla "romanella", condotto con maestria attraverso brevi salti-letterari da un personaggio all'altro fino a un countdown di mezzanotte veramente da cardiopalma. Ah yes, Happy New Year to you and blablabla. On 29 January at Floor Wars Italy will pull the money in the circle ;-)