Christmas is commercialized, the part I object to is the 'too'. In a free market society, this is inevitable. Why is it always Christmas consumerism which is penalized for being empty and removed from meaning? Everything in Western society is commercialized, when accepting a capitalistic economic model you cannot differentiate between what is 'allowed' to be commercial because it never had some deeper, religious meaning behind it and what isn't because it's supposed to represent something more meaningful. The rules of supply and demand apply to everything whether it be religious, spiritual, meaningful etc. It is just one of the lesser downsides to capitalistic society, and I would say that one should be grateful for not having greater grievances concerning the socioeconomic climate in one's country. Yes, perhaps in an idealistic world some would say we should have the pragmatic rules of the market governing certain facets of society and a deeper respect for the more 'meaningful' parts which we would place on the pedestal of tradition. However, the problems arising from this would be much greater as they would have to depend on capitalism with a great degree of state imposition by an institution who selects what are the 'meaningful' celebrations and which aren't. In an unbiased, *free* market society, we all have the choice whether to buy these goods or not. We should be grateful for that choice.