Roderich Marquart
Ludichristmas
"Another Lewd Marketing Ploy"
Well this is Christmas, and another chance to fill up
on the latest supply of plastic junk from the United
States and other third world sweat shops. It may
interest the reader that we're not exaggerating. Eighty
percent (80%) of what is produced in the United States
is nothing less than plastic "junk".
Never before has there been such a deluge of trash
in our stores, popping off the shelves for all those
loathsome shoppers, buying junk for their families
and friends by the cart full.
No generation has ever enjoyed the quantity of junk
now available to any average non-imaginative hack.
Ludichristmas is the perfect time for the corporations,
who produce the junk, to do some serious marketing.
That's right, manipulating people's spiritual sensibilities
and their feelings for family and friends in order
to make them buy garbage. That's modern marketing at
its very best.
That is why Ludichristmas decorations are installed
in public places around June or July. Wouldn't want
to miss buying all that junk. At least not according
to those selling it. We're reminded months before the
alleged anniversary of the now largely irrelevant and
defunct historical event even arrives, of the need
to buy lots of garbage for our loved ones.
Plastic toys for girls and boys, gadgets and gimmicks,
great video games designed to train minors on machine
guns. Plastic weight reducers, plastic furniture etc..
Ludichristmas music comes about the same time that the
commercials become exceedingly manipulative and perversely
persistent in duping grandma or Biff Jones to go out
and buy a bunch of cheap, shoddy products bereft of
any quality or workmanship. Gifts have never been so
low in quality before, nor have they ever been so cheap
and plentiful.
The masses just buy it up. Bombarded by greasy commercials
and pounded into submission through PA systems, blaring
out one cheesy remix of a series of idiotic songs after
another. The silly hacks stumble through the aisles,
spending their hard earned petty cash on worthless
trash.
Yes,.... it's Ludichristmas.