Originally posted by John MacNeil
Santa, that jolly old fellow who lavishly distributes gifts to all the world's children, is a concept that was built on a real person's goodwill. The story of Mr.Claus has a history in several cultures and he always was presented as a benefactor of goodwill and boundless joy! While the spirit of Santa was born of goodwill, the presentation of Santa has been kidnapped by the merchants and they flog his representation, and his reputation, shamelessly in their pursuit of easy money. The whole idea of Christmas is being subjugated by merchants, which is to say Big Business, in an attempt to turn it into a crass orgy of greed in which climate they make fully a third of their yearly profits. The spirit of friendliness and love that should permeate the season is gradually being overshadowed by corporate lust for profit, as is evidenced by the ever earlier start to the holiday buying season, which now has the corporations and merchants setting up their Christmas displays before Halloween.
Natural Selection, the scientific observation that species breed and pass on their better traits to their offspring, thereby, over extended periods of time and through succeeding generations, improving the efficiency of the species and the liklihood that succeeding generations would be better adapted to their environment and hence would be more likely to have a favorable survival rate, has been distorted by some people to make their Evolution Theory. They have, for corporate and political reasons, denied the existence of all evidence that casts doubt on their evolution theory, even though such evidence is in abundance and evidence for evolution is non-existant. The proponents of evolution, for personal and professional profit, advocate for their theory even though they know it is wrong and that it is, in the long term, detrimental to the formative thought of young people and to society in general.
The two theory began with altruistic motives, Santa Claus with spreading joy among the poor children, and natural selection with describing nature for science. The fact that both of them have been misused, and, indeed, abused, is a sorry commentary on the morals of society that they would let things advance to such a sorry state.
The one, Santa, seems like a harmless lie that is told to children in countries where conspicuous consumption is now the norm. A problem it creates is that the way it is marketed it turns children into mindless consumers of much that they don't need and it ingrains that consuming behavior into them and makes it all but inevitable that they will pass on that behavior to their children. If all children in the world shared in such goodwill and wealth, then perhaps it wouldn't be so harmful.
The young people who are indoctrinated with the make-believe theory of evolution, which is willfully expanded from the recorded scientific observations of natural selection, will believe in that theory as they believed in Santa Claus, even though there is no direct evidence to prove the theory. The corporate/science controls the belief in the theory by directing funding to favorable projects and complient researchers. They control the publishers and decide what will be written in text books and they thereby control the minds of the populace by controlling what they are allowed to learn. The ultimate aim is the same for controlling Santa Claus. And that aim is money and power.
Christmas and corporate/science are two of the largest grossing cash cows that the manipulators possess. In both, money is not the only objective. A corollary to the money is control of society, and that may be as important to the greedy people as the money, for it leaves the mainstream population susceptible to other manipulations. The big problem with such societal manipulations is that it doesn't allow science to advance apace of it's collective human knowledge, but it retards it and, as it's main focus, has it investigating lines of inquiry that are predetermined to return scant knowledge.
