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kontextmaschine:

bambamramfan:

kontextmaschine:

It’s actually kinda neat that 2 of America’s seasonal festivals (Thanksgiving/fall and Independence Day/summer) are coded nationalistically and the other 2 (Christmas/winter and Easter/spring) religious

You would be the first to admit that Big Capitalism is not America\u2019s religion, but it is a dominant force in the country. And I think Christmas is more capitalist than it is religion. So 2/1/1

Yeah, the draining religious content is an interesting synecdoche for the national culture here (Pilgrims giving thanks used to bear religious overtones!)

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Now Easter’s the tougher case, that’s still more religious-coded as religiosity declines, we worked up the bunny, eggs, and candy baskets to give it some secular content but that’s not really thick enough to bear weight on its own, in my childhood you might dress “up” for church and then go to a nice lunch with your extended family (in town, this wasn’t a holiday you traveled for \u2013 actually that itself is an interesting distinction, you’d travel for Thanksgiving and Christmas but not Easter or the 4th [though summer holiday road-tripping was a thing]), but that was kind of the small-town “Sunday best” model the previous generation had experienced every week

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