Topic: Misconceptions about valentine. - page 2. (Read 196 times)

yep corporate gimmick.
consumers products companies need more excuses to sell more products
they cant just rely on birthdays/impulse purchases

they want to have seasonal extremes of batches of a certain category that majority of people will always buy enmasse

christmas.new year->45-50  days->valentines-> 45-50 days->easter->
there were some categories like 'pentecost' ,'brothers day' but it never caught on.
where as others did. fathers/mothers day, independance, halloween, thanksgiving,

you can notice the capitalist signs when 'occassion' promoters try to grab onto many schemes to hype up the occassion.
EG christmas. yes it happens in winter. but most capitalist countries dont get snow in december, they get it in february, yet snow is a big theme for christmas as it sets a special scene to hype up the occassion
surprisingly it should be a valentines theme


as for valentines. roses dont usually bloom seasonally in february. nor do cocoa plants 'fruit' their cocoa..
yet valentines promotes roses and chocolate like it is a natural thing.

this is because many decades(a century+) ago in these off-season times chocolate and roses would rate at a premium value because they were scarce in the february season. and so capitalists grabbed these seasonal premium items to try getting more profit. they simply needed to get a defining reason for getting more people to pay the extreme premium prices that roses/chocolate had during february.

and yes thanks giving is when turkey is at a premium naturally. yep its off season for turkey hunting(november/winter). yet they wanted to raise demand for turkey in that period

I thought Valentines day was mostly a corporate gimmick. It gives big corporations an opportunity to sell you something in the name of love (not like they really care, obviously). If your relationship relies on affection through a calendar date, then I might say there are some underlying issues lol

I believe in love everyday and not love only on valentine's day, I believe in gifting loved ones even when there is no occasion for it. I believe in sit outs and eat out, lunch and dinner dates with people or someone you love on any day and not necessarily on valentine's day alone. If one truly loves someone, one should show it everyday and not only on a specific day.

Valentine's Day celebration in our society has taken a new turn. It is now a day where those not in a relationship or married feel left out, it is now a day where those who do not get gifts tend to feel a little less loved. A day where common things like gifting and movies, eat outs and dinner dates etc are made to feel as though they were uncommon things that could not happen anyday else.

What is your view on Valentine's Day? Is it a day to fake love and show temporary affection? Is it only for lovers?