Originally posted by Mindship
It may've been this way since, at least, Dickens' time.
“I can find sources from the late 19th century saying that Christmas isn’t the same as it used to be,” said Penne Restad, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Christmas in America: A History.
"A Christmas Carol captured the zeitgeist of the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens had acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and later inspired several aspects of Christmas, including family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games and a festive generosity of spirit."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol
Damn, you're right. it became highly commercialized in the Victorian period.
"Damn, you're right. it became highly commercialized in the Victorian period."
-- dadudemon (because, for whatever reason, I can't quote-function your quote.)
What cued me were my favorite lines from A Christmas Carol (Marley's Ghost):
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business."
I inferred from there.
Originally posted by riv6672😂
Thank you, Captain Obvious slash No shit, Sherlock.