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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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A F.U.C.K.ed Christmas
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Twas the days before Christmas at your average middle class house in
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the suburbs of any Amercian town. Trees were up, gifts were wrapped, and
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each of the houses on all of the blocks were done up in lights in an attempt
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to outdo the neighbors. Most importantly, there was a feeling of blatant
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commercialism filling the air.
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I hate this season. I don't hate Christmas because of what it stands
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for, namely peace and love and all that, I do however hate the mass market
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that has taken over a perfectly good holiday. Christmas has lost most if
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not all of its original meaning, and the new meaning filling the void it left
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behind is just as empty and vacuous as the season itself.
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Decorating for Christmas starts about the end of October now. The
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stores obviously feel that the consumers are too stupid to look at a calender
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to find the holiday so they begin advertising months ahead of time. I hate
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walking into a mall before Thanksgiving and seeing Santa's Big Booth of Kiddy
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Pictures already set up. Nothing ruins my day more than seeing some fat
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pedophile already pushing holiday cheer down my throat. I can say that the
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advertisers and shopping centers have lost the spirit that X-mas is supposed
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to hold.
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Many people have lost it totally too. Remeber when you would look
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forward to seeing all of your relatives and having dinner, and being a <gasp>
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family? No more. Nope. Today it seems like more and more people I see care
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more for what they get than for their families and the feeling of togetherness
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they should have. I get to see my family rarely, so this Christmas should be
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a special treat for me. So, if it means something to me, why doesn't it mean
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anything to millions of others? Is the family that far gone?
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Ugh, and the materialism that goes with the season. It is not the
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season of giving anymore, it is the season of taking. The bigger the gift,
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the better the love felt towards you. Since when did this holiday mean
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nothing more to girls than a new Dooney and Bourke bag? Shouldn't there be
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more to this than clothes and accessories? More feeling than silk and leather
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and cotton? Bah. The most popular gift this year in my area is going to be
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those stupid fucking $300 dollar purses. I have talked to about 5 girls who
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already plan to sulk if they don't get a new purse. Nevermind that the cost
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of those would buy Christmas for a family who isn't going to have it this
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year.
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I suppose all in all I can say that I am very dissapointed in the
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holidays so far. All I have seen is materialism, greed, cynics (heh), and
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the like. I feel like the season is dead, and the emotion and spirit that
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go with it are dead too. Before I end this file, let me show you a bit of
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symbolism. In the novel "A Christmas Carol" Dickens portrayed the Spirit
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of Christmas Present as a jolly figure. He was huge, filling a room with his
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laughter and light. Food stacked around him, and music playing in the
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background. That was beautiful for then. Now try to picture that same ghost.
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I can see him as hollow and gaunt and as empty as the holiday. Laughing still,
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but only as he rips open those gifts he got. I can see the new spirit now,
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and he is wearing designer jeans.
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-fastjack
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= Questions, comments, bitches, ideas, etc : z1max@ttuvm1.ttu.edu :FUCK =
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= interested in writing for, or in becoming a distribution site for =
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= F.U.C.K. call Flatline and mail Disorder or mail Max on the Celestial =
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= Woodlands or internet. Knowledge is power... =
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