Millions of children believe in Santa. Santa Claus. Freud and Feuerbach were wrong when they described the humans beliefs as childish.
Santa is the proof that transposition and psychotic transference into Divine works in much more misterious ways.
Santa is for children a Divinity, a God. Ok, it resembles an old father . Father Christmass , and here the God Father keeps all ties with the construction of God. It has even a beard, which is childish but … that is not the point which Witchdoctor will point out.
The point is is simple: Santa Claus is the only Divinity which brings gifts for free. It connects with joy, hope and community spirit. FOR FREE, and the gifts, if they are not only the poor mimicking, are only an excuse for this happiness. Unfortunatelly the pure joy is always exchanged into some stuff object of desire which narrows the real spirit behind it.
The God Father, on the other hand, is somebody which the human monkey has to obey, sacrifice animals, people, stuff, food or anyway be in fear of his revenge or anathema , especially the vindictive jewish YHWH.
Santa is opposite; He is a free giver. He may advise on behaviour but he is never vindictive or murderous.
Ok there is a consumeristic armour around him but the transcendent light of good, joy, hope, happines, shines through the cracks of the clutter of the capitalist mercification-The transformation into a setting for and about buying and selling; commercialization; consumerization.
And then through the time of growing, Freudian analysis gets real : The God Father (and Mother) kill Santa.
They, the “grown ups” announce or make it plain or make it happen that the child sees this Santa Claus as an invention. God Father killed Santa in a pure freudian spirit.
The real life as imagined by the Father and Mother steps in all cruelty for the sake of tha famous “reality check”. Grownups think they know the truth and kill Santa over ad over again for the sake of the world out there which is not a fantasy land , so they think. And then, they teach the children the “TRUE RELIGION”!
All this , including Santa, is madness or neurosis as Freud found out, but only when applied to an object of desire, or when this situation materializes- gets material, like any stuff..
If not, it is a common feeling of something greater and bigger – you have read the Witchdoctor stuff on this , like the Not Known Builder series and similar. And this Bigger brings joy, and hope and free gifts.
But in this biblical massacre of reality check which is our history crime scene and history trash pilot wave in which we are forced to live in, Santa stands out as the innocent free giver, maybe paternalistic but thats all in this father figure psychology ( sort of benevolent free giving authority) which a young monkey needs as the guidelines, definitely only up to a point.
So, why and who killed Santa?
But dear fellows there, Witchdoctor votes and opts for Santa any time in comparison to the God Father we see today roaming, stumping and scorching and messing the Land, living in the heads of multitudes- the so called grownups..
Happy Santa to you all, hail the Debt Free Giver , our Divinity for ever.
Lets make this place his realm. If this happens Witchdoctor is prepared to believe in him, until WD day comes!