Leonard Peikoff:
> America's tragedy is that its intellectual leaders have typically
> tried to replace happiness with guilt by insisting that the spiritual
> meaning of Christmas is religion and self-sacrifice for Tiny Tim or
> his equivalent. But the spiritual must start with recognizing
> reality. Life requires reason, selfishness, capitalism; that is what
> Christmas should celebrate--and really, underneath all the pretense,
> that is what it does celebrate. It is time to take the Christ out of
> Christmas, and turn the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic,
> pro-reason, this-worldly, commercial celebration.
Yeah -- fuck Toys for Tots and related socialistic gestures! The Meek shall not inherit the Earth -- corporations will! If poor kids want toys for Christmas, let 'em work in a sweatshop and earn them, provided there be no authoritarian minimum wage thrust on their employers. Atlas doesn't shrug -- he bellows!
DP