Dec 13, 2011
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Never realized that A Charlie Brown Christmas is set in a dystopian capitalist future. It becomes unmistakable when, in a lot full of hollow aluminum christmas trees flanked by searchlights, Linus says, “Gee, I didn’t know they still made wooden Christmas trees.” Maybe that explains why the adults have left the children to direct each other’s plays and set up their own psychiatric practices. In that light, Charlie Brown’s “I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel” sounds like the capitalist version of Brave New World. Maybe A Charlie Brown Christmas can help our children make sense of Eggbert, a promotional gimmick for Devitt’s Nursery and Supply as treasured Christmas tradition passed on to the next generation. “Did your mommy used to come to see Eggbert when she was your age?”

Never realized that A Charlie Brown Christmas is set in a dystopian capitalist future. It becomes unmistakable when, in a lot full of hollow aluminum christmas trees flanked by searchlights, Linus says, “Gee, I didn’t know they still made wooden Christmas trees.” Maybe that explains why the adults have left the children to direct each other’s plays and set up their own psychiatric practices. In that light, Charlie Brown’s “I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel” sounds like the capitalist version of Brave New World.

Maybe A Charlie Brown Christmas can help our children make sense of Eggbert, a promotional gimmick for Devitt’s Nursery and Supply as treasured Christmas tradition passed on to the next generation. “Did your mommy used to come to see Eggbert when she was your age?”

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