So get away outa that, o liberal commentariat! with your endless clichéd spiritually-empty** prattle about spiritual emptiness and consumerism and materialism and the awful bourgeois family or any such deadman's talk, because it's all just vain self-serving nonsense and all it describes is mere epiphenomena which are inevitable under capitalism & patriarchy (and visible to everyone in any case), and which your wilful or helpless or careerist scroogeism only makes worse.
So Happy Christmas, one and all.*** Here's to new life in a dead time.

*I avoided using the word 'miracle' there.
**I'm choosing my words carefully.
***including and especially anyone whose feelings I've hurt unnecessarily here over the last year.