I’ll edit my responses here…
A small anecdote here: I read a few days ago that apparently, Alzheimer’s patients get their daily routine and circadian rhythm knocked around by this policy
Edit 2: It’s funny how people are talking about time, as if this were my 2nd post of discussion on why time measurement is bullshit, on my account…
Some memorable replies here:
another point is that it’s probably not great for animals with a strong internal clock
Do not make me get up an hour earlier I will fucking cut you.
On the other hand it is nice the park is open later but have you considered just adequately lighting the park bike paths?
it’s bad and we should commemorate the inventor with a public toilet
If all the consumerism were excised from Christmas and the holiday was relegated back to December where it belongs, I might be able to tolerate it. Festive decorations are pretty, spending time with family is pretty great (also Christmas dinner slaps), and some of the old music (read: not any of that modern “I’m a famous artist buy my obligatory Christmas album” shit) is decently enjoyable, even if it’s only the nostalgia speaking. I don’t care for the religious angle, and the “Christmas is for Christ” ghouls can eat my entire ass since so much of the holiday was lifted from Pagan traditions, but the few non-religious parts of Christmas that haven’t been turned into a capitalist lich are rather nice.
I fully agree. I think a big part of winter solstice traditions centering so much around family and togetherness is because of the harshness of winter. And we act completely detached from that. Just because most people in the imperial core don’t struggle for food in the winter doesn’t mean there aren’t people freezing or starving at higher rates. And seasonal effective disorder is a whole thing that we’ve pathologized and divorced from cultural knowledge about the season. Capitalism and white supremacy truly do just chew cultures up and spit them out.