The Santa Claus Syndrome

21st December 2014

 

By Ethan Indigo Smith

 

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

 

The Santa Clause: Lying is OK, so long as everyone else is doing it.

 

The Santa Claus Syndrome is the effect of societal complicity in, and/or complacency to, lies and the belief that’s ok.

 

Take a moment to imagine yourself an outsider and visitor to a new culture. Imagine if you will an annual global celebration so fantastic that people excitedly await it all year long. Imagine the celebration correlates the winter solstice. Imagine the celebration is so spectacular and grandiose that it spurs the sales of products worldwide and some businesses exist solely because of it. Imagine that nearly all businesses profit from it and promote it. Imagine that the main part of the celebration, for most people, aside from sparkling decorations and elaborate gift giving, is openly lying to young children!

 

Most everyone celebrates the holiday, but those who do not celebrate it are expected to go along with the tradition of broadly lying to children and accepting the excessive materialism out of consideration for cultural tradition.

 

Conjuring, Consumerism and Conditioning

 

Although some call Christmas today a ‘Pagan’ holiday, in reality it is nothing of the kind. The pagans I know want nothing to do with it.

 

Christmas is a children’s consumption holiday. They look forward to it the most. Well, children and the profiting corporations, of course. Children receive countless presents, rewarded for accepting as truth impossible fictions about a fat man from the North Pole, an omnipotence external being who “sees you when you’re sleeping”, who judges children, and who withholds or grants material incentives accordingly. 

 

It is better to give than to receive, they are told.

 

Celebration and happiness is in the receiving, they observe.

 

Reward is earned by modelling behavior and suspending critical thinking, they learn.

 

Generally speaking, telling children fiction as fact is counter-productive to their developing minds. But children do of course eventually inquire of their parents and strangers alike about the phenomenon of the holiday and the fat man. For a period of time after that first enquiry, many children are lied to further – to prolong the “magic”. Finally, they get their answer and find that majority of adults are in on the lie. Even institutions like schools lie, and local and national news. And now they will lie, too. And it’s all okay… so long as everyone else is doing it.

 

CONTINUE READING:

 

Previous articles by Ethan Indigo Smith:

 

• Chemtrails and the Nuclear Connection
• Individuality and Spirituality in the Age of Institutional Rule (w/Andy Whiteley)
• The Matrix of Four Forms of Meditative Breath
• The Great Unsaid: What 1984 Can Teach Us About 2014
• Institutional Thinking – The Matrix, 1984 and The Allegory of The Cave
• A Little Green Revolution: the Rainbow Warriors will Heal the Earth Mother
• Saṃsāra and Nirvana – the Ultimate Duality
• We Have Sustainable Energy Technology – the Problem is the Oligarchy
• Why Governments Promote Deadly Nuclear Energy and Ban Beneficial Hemp
• The 5 Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation: 108 Movements to a Meditative Mind State
• Hate: The Ultimate Social Control Mechanism
• The Failed Politics and Faulty Science of Climate Change (w/Andy Whiteley)

 

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