The holiday season is like a swollen tick. These shopping centers, these megaplexes, these houses--the system is built to swell yearly. Nearly every business puts their fingers in the pie. Even Burger King, Mcdonalds--the acne littering the American landscape, selling impulse food impossible to give as a gift--offer gift certificates as presents. That's like giving gift-wrapped feces. The brain washing is working. "Secret Santa" and other cultural trainwrecks are now commonplace at so-called adult workplaces. Normal American adults do not fully participate in childish holidays such as Easter and Halloween but continue to celebrate Christmas as if they're 8 years old because every single business from Plumbing to prostitution markets their product as relevant to Christmas. On Easter and Halloween, only the candy companies have the audacity to put forth their product.

These cars, these jobs, these people, gifts, families swell to a bloated mass extending the world over. No celebration, no darkness, just lights and sales. I yearn to witness empty malls and shopping centers with crumbling concrete, cracked pavement, weeds overgrown like the culture that built it.