una

weekends are so short, alas. Classes are good though, right now I'm reading about how america started off on the wrong foot,basically, and has been grappling with it ever since. Aperantly during the Enlightenment (don't ask me for a date I am terrible with numbers) folks (White male elites) decided that civilized man didn't need culture or seramony to survive as humans, on only needed rationality.

step back for a bit and imagine a society, not unlike our own, full of cell phones laptops hurried looking people school childered on big yellow busses etc. And think about how it all would STOP entierly - no stores open no homework assigned no cars - on hollidays and the few days before and after. Not just on chistmass - which I would argue is a pallid example a holiday given its strong ties to consumerism and the idea of people as consumers and not as citizens - would people sit down with their family and loved ones but there would be massive and unrestrained celibrating on Halloween, thanksgiving, easter etc. All I mean by unrestrained is that thoughts and worries of everyday life would vanish during a holiday.

I think that resting reflecting and pulling togeather the loose strings of the week or day or month is just as importaint as being productive if not more. I also thingk that integrating "culture" (which implies comunity as opposed to the sea of lone indeviduals we have now) back into our society would help a lot of other areas of American lives.

This is a rough sketch in my mind.

thoughts? Ideas?

love - Una