Should we embrace the true spirit of Christmas, you know how it was celebrated up until about 200 years ago?
About a thousand years ago the christians began subverting the pagan yule celebration for their own twisted purposes. Up until this time it had been a celebration with lots of drinking, feasting and a general wild time design to help the community get through the darkest most depressing time of the year.
It remained this same type of celebration with the poor putting on disguises, getting drunk and demanding fine food and drink at the doors of the rich with consequences for their failure to do so. This Mummer tradition was banned in most of Europe over 2 centuries ago but, still survives today in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ion the rest of North America it ended with the Quakers who banned the celebration of Christmas. A ban that lasted to just about the start of the Twentieth Century when modern commercial Christmas was born.