Paulin Césari: "Black December in Besançon"

"Fantastic December."

This is how the Besançon Trade Office decided to put an end to “Christmas”. From now on, the city's illuminations will no longer celebrate the birth of Christ, but the month of December like a “Black Market”. We can understand them, because Christianity and consumerism share a common point: Friday (Good Friday and "Black Friday"). For the first, it is the day when Christ dies renouncing the enjoyment of this world to be fulfilled in the next. For the second, it is the day of the holy consumerist ecstasy when all the “beyond” dissolve in the “libido sentiendi”. This antagonism is radical and

has the merit of showing reality as it is.

So to put an end to an obsolete "Christmas spirit".

With a conceptual mush in which decomposed realities float: charity, family, fraternity, solidarity, spirituality ...

Now reduced to the state of marketed and prescriptive fictions, these archaic values ​​have a dual function ...

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