I think it’s time that this issue is discussed with the seriousness it deserves. People are forever saying that it “doesn’t matter” and I for one think that it’s an unjust attitude, since it’s as least as important a debate as this one, and I’m confidant that dopers will undertake this debate in a similarly solemn fashion. But I digress.
Surely you’ve watched movies that feature Santa Claus. Most “Santa” movies, from your Mircles on various Streets, to the Santa Clause, Santa Claus: The Movie, or even Ernest Saves Christmas, have parents in them. And what, in each of these movies do the parents tell their young, believing children? “There’s no Santa Claus.” They adamently assert that there is no such being as Santa Claus, and refuse to even consider the mere possiblity that they are wrong. So determined that they are right, they even ignore physical evidence to the contrary!
Yes, I’m talking about the presents left by good Saint Nick under the tree. Since Santa brought them, the parents ** must** know that there are extra gifts under the tree on Christmas morning. I don’t know about you, but if I knew I hadn’t bought something, and it showed up addressed to * my* child, I would be curious, if not out-right worried about who could have left it there. In fact, if I was sure there wasn’t a Santa, I’d check for ticking before allowing anyone to open it, assuming that some psycho(not Santa) had broken into my house and left it there to harm my family. Yet these parents haven’t a care in the world, and just hand the brightly wrapped packages of unknown origins over to their supposedly cared for offspring.
Why, despite evidence that supports the existance of Santa Claus, do these parents adamently insist there isn’t a Santa? What other explaination could be more plausable to them?
Because these are the same Attention Deficit Disorder parents they use over and over again in movies, the ones that never notice the pods down in the basement or the gremlins in the attic, the ones who, right at the moment, are “not noticing” that their “Dogs and Cats” are waging World War III out on the patio.
[baggage claim employee from Fight Club]
Modern bombs don’t tick. We get worried if luggage is vibrating. Usually it turns out to be a…[whisper]Dildo[/whisper]
Personally, since I’ve always thought that parents would indeed notice such a phenonemen and the parents always seem perfectly rational, I’ve used Occam’s razor* and taken this as evidence that even in the movie itself, Santa doesn’t exist and that either the whole thing in entirely in the child’s head or the so-called “Santa” is actually a raving paedophile in a weird red suit.
