It’s the holiday season and that means that it’s time to begin the tried and true and for some people massively neurotic holiday tradition: Present Shopping! In this episode, Mav and Hannah Rogers engage in a lively discussion about the anxiety and joy associated with buying gifts, the consumerist nature of the holidays. How do you buy the perfect present? Is there a perfect present? Is there a to “do Christmas ethically” or is the whole process simply dooming us to capitalist holiday hellscape of conspicuous consumerism from which none of us will ever emerge before the world descends into inescapable dread and chaos as we await the eventual heat death of the universe? But you know… with friends and family and presents under a tree! Listen as we work through the cultural implications of gift giving and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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