Text-Number: 0161E
Available: 11/12/1996
Category: CultureNumber of characters: 2134
Author: Roderich Marquart
Title: Ludichristmas. "Another Lewd Marketing Ploy"
Copyright: Roderich Marquart

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.