Are we done yet?

The whole premise of my complaint here is an annoying first world concern that at least half of the world doesn't have to deal with, but perhaps that fuels a bit of the anger as well. And I could just not go online but! if I have to see any more pictures of spoiled white US kids looking bored while they open up myriads of gifts (on that lovely "networking" site, Facebook) most likely put together by someone who has never experienced the monstrosity that is a US Christmas I'm...I'm going to start to write complaint letters to their parents, or rant on my "wall" about it. What tops it off is certain peoples' mention of how we need to "keep Christ in Christmas" and how they're "celebrating his birthday" and not being as materialistic as everyone else is. Puh-lease. It's about the gifts, it's about consuming, it's about stuffing yourself, it's about pretending Santa is real until a certain age--please cut it with the holier than thou crap. I'm sure one can ruminate on Christ's nativity and feel some kind of high or something, but I can't imagine that if such a guy really existed he'd care if one celebrated his date of birth or not. Anyway, enough of the moralizing and acting like the holiday is anything other than an ancient tradition where we celebrate during some of the shortest days of the year when everything is lying dormant until spring. Nothing wrong with festivities, I love them in fact! And I love getting together with people. I hate that it's more or less an excuse to shower each other with plastic toys assembled in China that parents bought with an underlying thought that they were "stimulating the economy" somehow. Can't wait till it's out of everyone's system for the next eleven months.