Public events can unify residents of a community, which may give them a deeper respect for their neighbours. And creating fun events for children is always very important. But in an age of acute environmental awareness, needless parades seem archaic; the waste and greenhouse gases created give parades a dinosaur-sized carbon footprint.
Christmas parades, in particular, are the epitome of Western civilization’s gluttonous lifestyle, and it is time people rethought their expectations of entertainment. Parades laugh in the face of nature and poverty. Granted, food was collected at the recent Santa Clause Parade, but that seemed an afterthought to the real priority—advertisement.
Organize a parade for a hero, or a cause—not floats with Dora the Explorer. Parades are just another chance for corporations to promote their products. Christmas is the biggest consumer scam of all time, and events that promote it just exemplify greed.
While 300,000 people came out for the Rogers Christmas Parade on November 20, only a small fraction of that showed to the Vancouver Remembrance Day ceremonies on the 11th. Entertainment is the only thing worth rallying for in Canada, it seems.
Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched down Burma streets in September, risking their lives in a reach for democracy. In contrast, the West only unify when it’s time to see Santa on his greenhouse gas-spewing float.
Parades are either the ultimate show-off or the ultimate embarrassment to the Western countries. Roads are blocked, cars are detoured through longer routes and a huge amounts of garbage is created, not for a cause—but for Santa Clause.
Christmas parades, in particular, are the epitome of Western civilization’s gluttonous lifestyle, and it is time people rethought their expectations of entertainment. Parades laugh in the face of nature and poverty. Granted, food was collected at the recent Santa Clause Parade, but that seemed an afterthought to the real priority—advertisement.
Organize a parade for a hero, or a cause—not floats with Dora the Explorer. Parades are just another chance for corporations to promote their products. Christmas is the biggest consumer scam of all time, and events that promote it just exemplify greed.
While 300,000 people came out for the Rogers Christmas Parade on November 20, only a small fraction of that showed to the Vancouver Remembrance Day ceremonies on the 11th. Entertainment is the only thing worth rallying for in Canada, it seems.
Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched down Burma streets in September, risking their lives in a reach for democracy. In contrast, the West only unify when it’s time to see Santa on his greenhouse gas-spewing float.
Parades are either the ultimate show-off or the ultimate embarrassment to the Western countries. Roads are blocked, cars are detoured through longer routes and a huge amounts of garbage is created, not for a cause—but for Santa Clause.
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