@Triphid -- All of that was said in the video. Too bad you didn't watch it and went through all that trouble to be redundant. Of course, if you did watch it and still pressed on through your comment, I am forced to wonder. Besides, I dare say most people in this group are well aware of all that and the reason for posting the video was for entertainment and not as a critical comment on the holiday.

@evidentialist I posted because I wanted to show how ' commercialized' Xtianity, in particular, has made such ancient celebrations such Samhain ( All Hallowed Eve).
To my mind Xtianity has become a TOOL of the Corporations as well as becoming a Money Making Corporation itself.
But hey, a genius such as yourself would already know that, would they?

@Triphid -- It has been apparent for quite a long while, yes. However, I suggest that the commercialization of the Dead Jew on a Stick crowd's ideas is no different than the commercialization of anything else. Where there is a market the vendors will be. Where there is no market, the vendors will create one or at least generate a perceived need that clever entrepreneurs will find a way to satisfy and turn into a moneymaking proposition. There are many obvious examples of this. I daresay nowhere is this more obvious than in the more capitalistic regions of the world, with the United States well in the lead in the commercialization of the most trivial of things. Entire industries are built up around created markets.

"One of the reasons that the markets are interesting is because of the interaction between the role of vision and the role of pragmatic reality. I think that, if you don't have a vision, unless you want to be the proverbial "monkeys typing Shakespeare," you're unlikely to actually try something very different from what's been tried before. But the market system that we have, certainly in entrepreneurial cultures, actually subjects you fairly early on to a feedback loop that causes you to understand, first, whether the unsated need or the opportunity to create a new compelling experience that you thought was there is actually there. And if it isn't, then obviously you aren't very likely to create a market. If it is there, you get a set of feedback as to what the likely economic structure is going to be, which in my experience in the technology realm, is almost always different in the specific from what you think it will be. You create a good business if it turns out that the characteristics of the market that actually develops are favorable. And they may end up being more favorable than you expected. To me, the prime examples of that are eBay and Google, which were involved in creating new technology that ended up being associated with massively, explosively large markets. But if it turns out that the market is a lousy market, you can end up having launched a revolution but being a catalytic element sitting at the bottom of the glass, rather than a participant in that market.

So the role of vision is phenomenally important in getting things going. Then the reality of how the economic value chain develops is often quite different from the concept or the vision that started things off."

~Rob Glaser

That it is.