Why are Colored Lights Just so Tacky?

I am taking quite a chance starting a post right now.  My husband is working late, the kids are still up and about, and I have two cats desperately trying to make eye contact with me in hopes of being fed their evening meal.  But, I have what appears a 'moment' and am afraid of losing it to life.  So, I press on.  Christmas is still 7 weeks away, and our Thanksgiving menu has yet to be planned. Yet, the retail world and my 6 year old have decided that it is time to bring out the  holiday decorations.  I have heard nothing for days except how much my little friend wants colorful lights this year.  Not just on the tiny tree in his room, but every where.  " They are just so pretty!"  I have spent years dreading this moment.  Somehow up until now I  quietly avoided commenting on a request for 'color'.  My oldest gave up caring years ago, when I calmly explained to him that is what driving around looking at other people's lights was for.  I had him convinced that colored lights were not available to the general public.  By the time he caught on to the truth, he was a typical male that just didn't care.  His younger brother has turned out to be a force to be reckoned with.  Every trip to Target, Meijer, or the pet store reinforces this idea that colored lights are available to all.  Recently on a family shopping trip, I purchased him his very own 50 light strand thinking that I had made my nod to tacky and could tastefully move forward with my colorless holiday plans.  These lights are now up in his room, awaiting the multitude of strands that he plans on joining with them to 'light' everything up.  Both inside and outside the house.  He has this strangely powerful way of making me feel as if my desire for taste is destroying his childhood, the guilt is just too much.  I may or may not give in to his grand ideas of 'decorating'.  But for the first time in my life, I am tempted.   Tempted to go against my most important rule of decorating, which is simply if nature doesn't provide it neither should I.  Stars and the flicker of a candle are 'white', not blue,pink, or green!  It is just wrong.  Wrong!