Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Sorry if there should have been a spoiler alert for those waiting to be surprised by their daily desk calendar. It's the strangest sort of holiday. It doesn't have direct religious significance since nobody's God was born, died, or fought aliens on it. It doesn't have quasi supernatural elements like Halloween, it's not a day off in honor of somebody. It's nominally patriotic in that it certainly has an American mythology built up behind it, but yet it has become almost entirely secularized from those roots in every day life. Of course Christmas has become largely secularized as well, but it has also become thoroughly commercialized in proportion.
There's something absolutely pure about Thanksgiving, this single day that was set aside as a good idea. Everyone flies home from whatever corners of the world they actually live in most of the year, we sit down, we eat,...
There's something absolutely pure about Thanksgiving, this single day that was set aside as a good idea. Everyone flies home from whatever corners of the world they actually live in most of the year, we sit down, we eat,...
- 11/24/2010
- by Steven Lloyd Wilson
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