How Modern Christmas was Invented

My Patreon:   / cuck   My Twitter:   / philosophycuck   Sources: Stephen Nissenbaum - The Battle for Christmas Leigh Eric Schmidt - The Commercialization of the Calendar: American Holidays and the Culture of Consumption, 1870-1930 William M. O'Barr - Advertising and Christmas Georgiana Batinga, Marcelo Pinto, Sara Pimenta Resende - Christmas, consumption and materialism: Discourse analysis of children’s Christmas letters David Harvey - The Condition of Postmodernity Raymond Williams - The Long Revolution Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:37 The Appearance of Christmas 02:47 Early Modern Europe 08:04 Puritan Opposition 09:20 The Birth of Consumerism 16:26 The New Santa Claus 19:08 The Christmas Gift 22:07 Time and Space 23:35 Culture 25:45 Credits