In this episode, I begin with reading from the Marquis de Sade, The dialogue between a priest and a dying man.
This episode again is taking a little bit from group therapy and the discussions about the perceptions of being good or being bad and being punished based on the idea of Santa Claus, but then I started bringing up in the group the idea about Krampus.
Krampus is half goat half man all demon and is based on some of the folklore in southern Germany and Austria. In this episode, I talk about the differentials between Santa being the god of Christmas and the birthday for Jesus Christ.
In this episode, I also talk about how they relate BF Skinner, and experimental design about positive and negative reinforcement, and what punishment does when you’re talking about the difference between a child and an adult in the way they see Christmas.
I’ve always found a perceptions of people around the holiday season, going from country to country to be extremely interesting in regards to the norms, mores and taboos that built that particular country and dictate terms for that particular group of people.
