Die Luft ist zum Schneiden, den ganzen Tag brennen die Lichter.
Eine dicke Smogglocke hängt über der nordmährischen Stadt.
Schuld sind die Stahl- und Hüttenwerke, aber auch Privathaushalte mit der noch weit verbreiteten Ofenheizung.
Vzduch je střih, světlo hořet po celý den.
Tlustý Smogglocke visí nad městem severu Moravy.
Dluh je z oceli a železa práce, ale i domácnosti sohřívací pece, které i nadále velmi rozšířená.
My own view is that the Santa “myth”, rationally speaking, is a lie.
A lie (also called prevarication, falsehood) is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others.
To lie is to state something with disregard to the truth with the intention that people will accept the statement as truth.
Lies imposed over years to your own children, promoted by commercial misuse in the name of an artificial material gratitude; as in, the lie is amplified by junk products that are barely useful, and would barely sell in a normal situation.
And as any lie, it diminishes the trust between parties, in this case your own children.
A diminish in trust puts one in the lookout for signs of betrayal; one got lied by the parents in the past, one might find him/herself in a suspicious position wondering when the parents will betray again.
The end of the myth, when children stop believing that some sort of Santa ever existed and it was all lies fabricated by the parents, normally happens at the age of 7/8, right before the start of puberty and teenagehood,
When children first learn how lying works, they lack the moral understanding of when to refrain from doing it. This takes years of watching people tell lies, and the results of these lies, to develop a proper understanding. Propensity to lie varies greatly between children, some doing so habitually and others being habitually honest. Habits in this regard are likely to change in early adulthood.
A parent’s guide to surviving the teen years
When you consider that the teen years are a period of intense growth, not only physically but morally and intellectually, it’s understandable that it’s a time of confusion and upheaval for many families.
Can’t be good or of any help to anyone involved, can it ?
Plus do take in account the fact that the child might believe that by continuous lying, the child will continue receiving material benefits, that lying brings up benefits upon himself, and it is a basic tool to achieve something, to get something, and to get anywhere. What sort of example does that set ?
And it skins your pocket in the process; how many people do fall in debt after Christmas ?
Four in 10 will be saddled with debt after Christmas splurge
Four out of 10 adults expect to end up in debt to fund the Christmas celebrations.
And it will take some people up to seven months to pay back what they have borrowed to buy presents, food and drink, a new survey shows.
Women are more likely to run up debts than men.
The average spend per adult is set to be €562. Irish people are also set to top the spending league in Europe.
Most people will be forced to dip into their savings to fund the seasonal splurge, with one in 10 set to use their credit cards, a new survey commissioned by the Irish League of Credit Unions indicates.
Others are set to borrow from credit unions and from moneylenders.
I think if a holiday of the sort is to be celebrated, it is a family holiday, where the family is meant to gather together for a couple days in the year, talk, enjoy, catch up and get to know each other better.
But even like that, family does not necessarily means that everybody get well along, or have something in common at all, so it is a personal decision to do it or not, not something that has to be done every single year at the exact same date.
Fear sells.
A hint on the ruthless nature of this predatory system promoted by the gambling politicians of democracy; the same politicians that have undoubtedly succeeded in provoking an unpredictable catastrophe, for the sake of a corporatocrat system with an artificial superiority complex, sustained by the gambling, lobbying and bullying of a self-interested minority elite.
Capitalism is the immoral distribution of capital, a corporatocrat tyranny.
Corporatocracy, in social theories that focus on conflicts and opposing interests within society, denotes a system of government that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. Where corporations, conglomerates, and/or government entities with private components, control the direction and governance of a country, including carrying out economic planning (notwithstanding the “free market” label).
If you don’t understand what are the practical social results of Corporatocracy and unfair distribution of capital, or even go as far as not acknowledging that there is a huge social problem in your Democrat Capitalist country, because it simply does not affects you, you are probably rich, and part of the said 1% “elite” that control the country and does everything for themselves while drinking champagne and sticking a big middle finger at the other 99%; which are basically the skint wage slaves, the people being ripped off by the banks, the people suffering from lack of infrastructure, the unemployed, and the, plainly said, people in misery.
A country has to be run for the country’s own people (99%), not in the name of every self-interested, dubious needs and demands of corporations, institutions and the elite (1%).
The fact that people are allowed to live in misery, alone, is a violation of articles 22 and 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
The first policy of any given country should be to guarantee fair distribution of capital, as in guarantee basic services and lifestyle to all of its people, guarantee a fair level of education and completely ban unemployment, as in redefining its system and structure to meet the most basic needs of its own people.
Capitalism: “Miss another payment and we take the blanket.”
