An odd thought
Apr. 15th, 2006 01:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdHolidays are mostly remnants of an agrarian era.
There's the light festival in dark midwinter.
There's a fertility festival in the spring.
There's a harvest festival in fall.
So what happens as we move away from the land?
What happens as fertility--the soil's, the animals', our own--becomes less important, even a liability in some cases?
Will the holidays change?
Will new ones evolve?
As Christianity loses its 2000 year grip on western civilization (1), will we see changes? Or will the old holidays still be celebrated, stripped of all but commercial trappings? (Hobby Lobby has Christmas cross-stitch kits already)
(1)In 15 years, I have seen the number of people identifying as Christian drop from 85% of the population to 75%. Check the census site.
There's the light festival in dark midwinter.
There's a fertility festival in the spring.
There's a harvest festival in fall.
So what happens as we move away from the land?
What happens as fertility--the soil's, the animals', our own--becomes less important, even a liability in some cases?
Will the holidays change?
Will new ones evolve?
As Christianity loses its 2000 year grip on western civilization (1), will we see changes? Or will the old holidays still be celebrated, stripped of all but commercial trappings? (Hobby Lobby has Christmas cross-stitch kits already)
(1)In 15 years, I have seen the number of people identifying as Christian drop from 85% of the population to 75%. Check the census site.
