Yaguida and his ilk are after Santa not because the jolly fat man is evil, but because they don’t want the figure of legend to give kids hope. That’s right, this fictional society coddles kids so much that we’ve looped right back to being horribly abusive. So how does this logic even work? Well, kids need to follow their marching orders. In other words, learn what we tell you to learn, marry whom we tell you to marry, do whatever job we tell you to do. But if they have hope, they might push back on said orders. They might try to achieve their own dreams and ends, and thus not do what the government tells them to do. If you want to be charitable, you could argue that the world is in such a precarious situation that it’s all hands on deck. If kids start acting out, the whole house of cards will come tumbling down. Basically, crushing kids’ hopes and dreams is just a necessary evil.
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