Our resident billionaire every year lights up his whole place every evening in December from dusk until midnight, and it can be seen for miles and miles. This being the Christmas Season, we won't go into the subject of conspicuous consumption, because there's an epidemic of it these days.
I have a theory: Away back in the good old days, millennia ago, a shaman and a merchant got together and decided on a 'make-work project' of mutual benefit; they invented what we now call 'Christmas' but back then went by another name, among them in Roman times that of 'Saturnalia', taking place at this time of year because they needed the business. It has evolved over the centuries, and been refined a bit, but its main object remains the same: to separate those gullible unwashed masses from their spendable coin. And it still works the same as ever.
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