A weblog reports Chris Rock's remarks
on Saturday Night Live this past weekend:
"It’s America, we commercialize everything.
Look at what we did to Christmas.
Christmas. Christmas is Jesus’ birthday.
It’s Jesus’ birthday. Now, I don’t know Jesus
but from what I’ve read, Jesus is the least
materialistic person to ever roam the earth.
No bling on Jesus.
Jesus kept a low profile and we turned his
birthday into the most materialistic day of the
year. Matter of fact, we have the Jesus birthday
season. It’s a whole season of materialism.
Then, at the end of the Jesus birthday season
we have the nerve to have an economist come
on TV and tell you how horrible the Jesus birthday
season was this year. Oh, we had a horrible Jesus’
birthday this year. Hopefully, business will pick up
by his Crucifixion.”
Related music and image:
"Show us the way to the next little girl …"
Natalie Wood in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947)
Related non-materialistic meditations:
The Rhetoric of Abstract Concepts and Gods and Giants.