great article, here's an excerpt:

We think we're all individualists... But we're actually being manipulated by the largest and most expensive propaganda system ever developed... It's always the same: Buy stuff and you'll be happy, buy stuff and you'll be complete... And it works. People are buying stuff. But studies show that it doesn't really make them feel happy...Christmas is a time when we're supposed to be celebrating the birth of one of the greatest anti-materialists who ever lived... Instead, it's become a time to go out and spend a lot.

i'm already bored and annoyed with the holiday season and it's only just begun. can't wait for the new year...