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⌈ Secret Post #6935 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

The issue as far as I see it is that we've retained all these rituals around gift-giving while 1) forgetting what gift-giving is actually for and 2) living in a time of plenty where we all generally have what we want or need, and then some.

Gifts serve a couple of social purposes, but when we have other ways of creating mutual obligations, other ways of conveying appreciation/recognition/relational depth, and most importantly, when we all already have too much stuff, they stop feeling purposeful and start feeling empty. That's even more the case when they're tied to specific events that we're all expected to participate in. I think in this day and age, it would better for us to treat gifts as things that should be spontaneously given, when we happen to come across something that reminds of a loved one and that we genuinely think they'd like (and even then, it's best to keep them to a minimum). The holidays should be about building togetherness in other ways.

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I could not agree more. Going to a store and just buying some random impersonal items to fill up a gift bag is just pointless.