Anti Holiday Rant

I'm glad the holidays are over.

Why do we have them?

"Well, it's a tradition, you know,

we've always done it..."

Christmas?

It's only been a tradition for no more

than a couple of hundred years...

that's not exactly always.

And, what's the point of it?

To have something at a certain time

of year that we always do?

Native cultures also had traditions:

"We've always planted corn this way.

at this time, because we know the corn

always grows then, and then we get food."

That's a tradition that makes sense.

Or, say, having a feast at a certain time 

of year to recognize the passing of season

and the start of a new cycle...

acknowledging a truth about time: that 

it's cyclical...that also makes sense.

The solstice makes more sense as the

beginning of the New Year, because

that's when the Sun cycle begins again.

Saying that the New Year begins on

midnight, December thirty first, is simply

arbitrary, unconnected with any real earthly

event.

I think that's why Santa Claus has become

prominent at Xmas, and why the 

Easter Bunny is as important as the 

resurrection: because someone, somehow,

couldn't stand the arbitrary disconnectedness

of the sanctioned events, and had to make 

fun of them. At least, that's what I would, 

and do, do.