Comic #7246: tradition

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Panel 1:

• Speaker: "Christmas has gone astray! We need to go back to its roots!"

Panel 2:

• Audience member 1: "You mean the 17th and 18th century Puritan view that Christmas isn't a biblical holiday and shouldn't be important?"
• Response: "NO!"

Panel 3:

• Audience member 2: "You mean the Victorian era push to make Christmas a reserved, spiritual holiday oriented around family and childhood?"
• Response: "NO!"

Panel 4:

• Audience member 3: "You mean the medieval tradition founded in harvest time wassailing and lords sharing alcohol and food with the peasantry?"
• Response: "NO!"

Panel 5:

• Speaker: "I mean specifically the early 19th century period in which the bonds of feudalism were long gone but the tradition of yearly social inversion still lingered, so instead of an orchestrated period of misrule, you had bands of people wandering the streets, gambling, getting wasted, cross-dressing, fighting, and breaking rich people's windows for 12 days straight!"

Panel 6:

• Speaker: "And so…"
• Speaker continues: "Finally, the true spirit of Christmas!"
• (The scene transitions to a chaotic depiction of destruction and theft, with a background of flames and two figures running with loot.)