A McKuen Musings Advent

Do they know it's not technically Christmas?

Last Thursday when I was at church they gave us a slideshow about Advent with no speaking but just flashing the words on the screen for us to read, which was perhaps one of the first times I really felt like my intellect was really respected, and reminded me vaguely of the Quaker’s “meeting of minds,” though the Quakers’ seeming history of trying to be Jedi with telepathy and dueling warrants a whole other post on its own (seriously, this would be a cool religion if it were still like that, though of course now they are arguing whether or not they actually believe in God instead so go figure.) No pop culture anything or catchy gimmicks, just talking about Advent and what it is for all the people who don’t know everything on the slide!

This reminded me that this year is perhaps the first I’ve felt fully enthusiastic about Christmas as well as all the major traditions behind it. It’s not Christmas yet, it’s Advent, but I can really get into the spirit of the season because for the first time in my life, I feel like I really understand what it’s about.

This first link shall be somewhat of a detour, but:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (josephsmithfoundation.org)

Goethe, basically the figurehead of Germany and German-speakers (though many people wish it were his close friend Schiller instead) was entirely unlike how the majority of Bommunist (Boomer Communist) academics describe him, and the more relevant point here for me is that he preferred England over Germany. He thought Germany was bogged down in philosophy while England was going out and being all rule, Britannia with all the British Empire and all the Victorian science that gave us modern ideas like steampunk among other things. America comes from England because England was better overall (though Germany had some important contributions, mostly from people like Goethe who didn’t like the general Zeitgeist and Weltanschauung of Germany) and America was an improvement on Germany.

Britain was better-off because they did better things, not because they were evil colonialists and what have you. Of course there are valid criticisms of the British Empire like there are valid criticsms of everything. Additionally, Goethe was a Christian despite being a “freethinker,” and this should’ve been obvious to literally anyone who’s ever read Goethe and been drowned in all the Biblical allusions. Bommunists also like appropriating “freethinker” Christians for the cause of atheism which I think is ridiculous, and also has the side-effect of somewhat making even American churches, which were largely built on Emerson, Thoreau, etc. relatively more fundamentalist than they would otherwise be even though we’re still the most religious first world country because in America being religious is a happy thing and not a fundamentalist lunatic thing.

This brings me back to the fact that the Baby Boomers couldn’t teach us the true meaning of Christmas because they themselves didn’t know. Gens XYZ have adopted the philosophy of their parents quite well, even if it’s to their parents’ chagrin: Support the government mindlessly when things are going well, and when things aren’t going well, support Hamas, the Soviets, Nazis, and literally anything besides the culture you are in. So besides having three generations of horrible people with evil politics due to a fourth who just blindly followed the status quo without learning, we have a generation of Scrooges who don’t know about religion, politics, economics, or much anything else that made their culture great. And I’m not even saying other cultures aren’t great, India seems like they’re putting us to shame now, but we used to be great and now we’re falling behind because no one knows what made us great and the fifth column is now ourselves. Even if people like Jesus, or on the other hand they like the pop culture stuff, they don’t understand what happened to create the phenomenon of Christmas, because the people who taught it to them were just blindly supporting it as well.

Why the Baby Boomers Were the Real Commies All Along! (substack.com)

On the topic of Scrooge, I do also think Scrooge resembles a Jewish caricature, but that’s also how Jews largely assimilated to Western countries when they wanted to but Muslims didn’t. Jews got what A Christmas Carol was critiquing, which wasn’t actually Jews even if Scrooge is definitely a Jewish caricature, it’s literally one guy who realizes the positive meanings of Christmas, so all the Jewish people on Broadway (another Jewish caricature) took it in stride and learned from it rather than thinking the point of the play was hating Jews for being misers who don’t celebrate Christmas and watch orphans die. Meanwhile, Antisemites are supporting Hamas this Christmas.

Is ‘A Christmas Carol’ antisemitic? (forward.com)

To be fair, this is also not very halal.

In honor of Jews and Christmas, have “Hallelujah” written by Leonard Cohen, which is technically not a Christmas song, but as long as the Baby Boomers stop young people from writing new Christmas songs by also monopolizing the music industry and the radios with their bommunism, it’s the best we’ve got.

Pentatonix - Hallelujah (Yule Log) ft. The String Mob - YouTube

Another thing I’ve heard many Baby Boomers mindlessly drone on about is “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs” as well as “starving children in Africa.” Regarding “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” so-called “luxuries” are not a luxury, creating things that aren’t needed to stay alive improve the human mind, skills, and resources to be better-off, which is why the population growth always increases with Renaissances.

Population Growth and Renaissances (schillerinstitute.com)

(I personally don’t think the so-called “Islamic Renaissance” benefitted due to Islam and it should just be called the Persian Renaissance since most people involved weren’t even Muslim, but that’s another issue.)

Another is did you know starving children in Africa were the victim of communist regimes? That’s right! Yet you don’t hear that from Boomers, probably because it was actually the Greatest Generation waging the Cold War and Baby Boomers were just, as their name implies, big toddlers who took it for granted without understanding it. I found this article last year, but it still didn’t result in me understanding the various reasons for Christmas traditions and how they actually tie to religion as well as our politics etc.

The Wonderful (and Tragic) Story Behind ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ - Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)

This whole post is making me feel like I’m the only one who understands all of this, which can’t be true, though maybe I’m the only one who understands all of it together. I am being reminded of a novel about superheroes (yes, really) that one of my teachers growing up gave me and one of the characters was like, I’m Craniac because Brainiac and all the good names were already taken. Now even that is taken, so I’m going to have to think of something else that would probably be even less good if it weren’t for the fact my name from birth featured zealous overuse of the letter M so I’m already set up to act like a superhero and especially a mind-based one and see that yes, I am fearfully and wonderfully made no matter how much I often just feel like a brain and like the Bommunists are mocking me with The Big Bang Theory even though I don’t act anything like them because the Bommunists like making fun of anytone who actually works. I also learned how to give thanks to God for making me the way I am and I am very thankful for that as well since now I finally feel like I understand all the things that were never explained to me because the people who supported them didn’t understand and couldn’t explain either. I just feel almost boggled that one of the things I have to explain now is the true meaning of Christmas.

The Big Bang Theory, Baby Boomers, and Science (substack.com)

The Copper Hypothesis of Intelligence - by Michaela McKuen (substack.com)

Remember, it’s the Christmas season, but technically it’s Advent, and for those of us in school, we haven’t even had finals yet! Lots of people have other things to do, so remember that and happy Advent!