I've been reflecting lately how the events that people have been celebrating the most vigorously for the longest – the solstices, the equinoxes, et al – are the ones that get the least attention. But maybe that seems to be changing a little bit?
I'm all for holidays, ceremony, ritual ... especially ones stripped of all the capitalist trappings that most of our modern ones have. Everything has been turned into a sale! Sadly, the very structure of our society makes a day of sabbath, like closing everything on Sunday, a hardship for so many people that our society makes EVERYTHING a hardship for. Hopefully little pockets of communities working to change all that will grow into something bigger.
Gah, sorry missed your comment originally, but I love all of this obviously ❤️
Our society makes really celebrating communally a hardship because it requires community buy-in to make it work. St. Patrick's Day is a big thing here in Indianapolis, but you have to take the day off work usually to make it happen + and then there are all the people that still have to work in the bars and restaurants to serve you. It feels very overwhelming when you start to think of all the things necessary to be able to return to truly communal celebrations, which is part of what I enjoyed (maybe not enjoyed, but definitely appreciated) so much of Shulevitz’s response to Klein: she was basically like: "this is really hard if not impossible to do in our culture."
I've been reflecting lately how the events that people have been celebrating the most vigorously for the longest – the solstices, the equinoxes, et al – are the ones that get the least attention. But maybe that seems to be changing a little bit?
I'm all for holidays, ceremony, ritual ... especially ones stripped of all the capitalist trappings that most of our modern ones have. Everything has been turned into a sale! Sadly, the very structure of our society makes a day of sabbath, like closing everything on Sunday, a hardship for so many people that our society makes EVERYTHING a hardship for. Hopefully little pockets of communities working to change all that will grow into something bigger.
Gah, sorry missed your comment originally, but I love all of this obviously ❤️
Our society makes really celebrating communally a hardship because it requires community buy-in to make it work. St. Patrick's Day is a big thing here in Indianapolis, but you have to take the day off work usually to make it happen + and then there are all the people that still have to work in the bars and restaurants to serve you. It feels very overwhelming when you start to think of all the things necessary to be able to return to truly communal celebrations, which is part of what I enjoyed (maybe not enjoyed, but definitely appreciated) so much of Shulevitz’s response to Klein: she was basically like: "this is really hard if not impossible to do in our culture."