Angry Rant #29: It's Eggs-traordinary

It's Easter! Better open your wallets kids!

No...seriously...open your damn wallet up and purchase an obscene amount of chocolate to point where you won't eat it until the same time next year because that's what big business wants you to do. But somehow this all ties into that Jesus fairytale that somehow always seems to appear in the news this time of the year.

Now from the perspective of a person who doesn't use or need religion I find this "Happy Easter" saying that I've been hearing over the past few days somewhat strange - Strange as in about 60% of the Australian population in the 2006 census, described themselves as Christian and for them being happy on a day when their messiah was brutally tortured seems strange. Of course I'm not taking into account how he supposedly "rose from the dead" because well... Christians still believe he was brutally tortured and somehow symbolically drinking his blood and eating him is their way of making it all better.

So why do Christians wish me a "Happy Easter" and why do people who aren't religious wish me a "Happy Easter" too? What the hell?

But here's a couple of questions for you - what does a symbolically cannibalistic group of people who munch on their saviour every Sunday with a Pope who was part of the Hitler Youth have to do with fluffy little bunnies?

Pictured: A fluffy and adorable little bunny

What do fluffy little bunnies have to do with dairy products?

And why am I being spoon fed this garbage about purchasing copious amounts of food that's saturated in sugar in a country deemed the fatest in the world with the leading cause of death being heart disease?

It's pretty obvious that the big players like Woolworths and Coles have just tapped into a thought stream here - that being when it's Easter, people HAVE to buy chocolate, pork, steak, potatoes, alcohol, petrol, bread, ham platters, fruit platters, milk, soy milk, tea, coffee, biscuits, nicely cut cubes of cheese, overly-expensive gluten-free foods, hot cross buns, disposible plates, and even cake that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine if you're into that sort of thing.

I hope Ethan was grateful. 

Hopefully, you've noticed where I'm coming from.

But after we've finished being 'good little consumers' this week, we jump straight into ANZAC Day where we honour our fallen soldiers by drinking ourselves blind and gambling - and don't forget all those other times throughout the year when the most cynical of us see things like Christmas and even something like Mother's Day used as another opportunity to empty our wallets because it has become a social norm and to challenge this wouldn't be expected or taken on lightly by mainstream society - The Daily Telegraph practically lives off that shit. 

But it end, it just comes down to you, reader. The social norm is something that is never challenged because if you do, you end up being ridiculed by people you know - and if you're known by the media - then the same thing happens on a much larger scale. People just sit back and watch the world around them buzz by without stopping for a second and asking themselves "what's that about?" (DD) and running scared when something changes.

Oh your God... he's going up the down escalator! 

If you want to waste money on a corporate holiday or celebrate old tales of misogyny, then buy all means, have yourself a great Easter. But if you looking to stand back for once and just look at situation from a different perspective, you might just find a much better alternative.

I started reading some real philosophical history by Epicurus and looked everywhere for this picture so I hope you enjoy it! 

Don't believe the lies and spin.