Merry Christmas Comrades – good will and peace to all

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Kia ora Comrades, Merry Christmas to you and your whanau.

Good will and peace to all.

Remember- It’s not Christmas until you have a huge argument defending Fairytale of New York, Love Actually and eating anything that casts a shadow.

Today Joseph and Mary would have to pass through 15 checkpoints to get from Nazareth to Bethlehem.

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For many Christmas is a Season of Good Will, family, friends, whanau. A time to sit in each others company and celebrate the shared harvest of the year. It is joyful, it is welcoming, it is us at our best as a species.

For some however, it is a season of estrangement, a bitter cold loneliness whose each passing hour gnaws relentlessly into bone marrow that never heals. A 24 hour carnival of wounds made mockingly humiliating by the the cheer of the vast majority.

For those some, Christmas is a struggle of bruises with gift wrapped injury. For them, the bitter sweet working class lament ‘Fairytale of New York‘ sums up all the wasted hope of Christmas and allows pain to sit at the table in an exhausted detente with our more damaged angels.

Micro aggression policing Millennials decry this song for its hate speech language of ‘Slut’ and ‘Faggot’ and demand with all the nuance of Mao’s cultural revolution that this relic of pre-woke be burned at the virtual signalling stake.

When those some sing the insults with such ferocious gusto, it’s not aimed at homosexuals or women, those are insults being screamed at themselves once the distance between what was hoped and what was delivered is measured from heaven to the gutter.

Those some will not stop singing this pain, because this pain is the only guest at the table.

 

‘Not mistletoe and holly

To ward off melancholy

Carols in the chapel

Plum pudding and crabapple.

But to camp for a week

By a mountain creek

With fresh taken trout

And tinned pears to eat

With tea boiled in a billy

And the morepork in the gully.’ – James K Baxter

 

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17 COMMENTS

  1. Merry Christmas Martyn,
    I never doubt the sincerity of where you are arguing from even when I disagree, you are a caring human being.
    All the best for you and yours for the coming year.

  4. Nuts and ovaries, I also say.
    Dear Martyn Bradbury. Merry Christmas but more importantly, to me anyway, Merry Happy Whanau day with kids and friends. I’ve had a fabulous day with my female front-bottom special cuddles human, her family and our most fabulous new dog. It took the unavoidable necessity of celebrating a mythical celebrity to bring us all together for wine, lollies and food and fuck it. Do you know what? What ever it takes. Just so long as we don’t get fully sucked in to the cynical end game.
    You do an awesome job @ MBB and thank you for that.
    Russell Brand. A fellow conspirator.
    “Merry Christmas, you awakening wonders! Don’t get distracted by the Christmas propaganda, that’s trying to keep you numb, dumb and consuming over this period. Here is what to look out for! ”
    https://youtu.be/6HeeBPzzKf8

  8. You’re up there with Countryboy on the prose poetry — which I rather love, and prefer to regular poetry.

    i think in both cases the venom is over the top. Generally. Reality is deathly enough.

    Xmas for the poor I imagine is slow times and good moments, like middle-class mine forty years ago. Let alone, today.

    • I hope all have had a good Christmas. Or If not, I hope if looking for people to have a friendly laugh with, and to exchange good wishes with, that you are successful and then sleep with that happiness in mind.

      I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens
      Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/charles-dickens-quotes

      One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.
      Andy Rooney

      Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
      Edna Ferber American – Novelist August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968
      …Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, Giant and Ice Palace, which also received a film adaptation in 1960. Wikipedia

      (Ferber’s work was shaped by her childhood experiences of antisemitism in Iowa, and her work celebrated America even as she exposed its shortcomings. Her writing reflected her profound love of justice, and she often wrote about women whose energy and talent made them successful in business.
      Edna Ferber | Jewish Women’s Archive
      Jewish Women’s Archive ·
      https://jwa.org › article › ferber…)

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