That's me (or who I aspire to be) right there!
> _“I didn’t expect you to be interested. I’ll just be standing over here in the corner in case you decide you like truth and goodness.”_
@tripu I knew you would like that character 😆 scientifically engineering public holidays based on the optimal number of yearly breaks for an average number of hours/week and an average amount of stress/hour. Sounds like a dystopia!
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Well, I was talking in general there (cold utility calculations, cost/benefit analyses, redesigning traditions, etc).
But wrt fesitivies you forgot the most important point there: picking the best individuals/groups to honour! 😃
@tripu yeah, let's vote every 4 years to decide who we honour on each holiday... I'm sure that won't end up badly at all 😂
Who talked about voting?
Lots of (preferable) ways! Elections every four years are _the rarest_ of ways in which governments at all levels make important, long-term decisions; I'm surprised that was your first thought.
@tripu I was only half-joking. But I suspect any way of deciding would be controversial and would generate polarising protests each time the current taboo trends change, which seems to be weekly nowadays. I think learning to accept (some) (harmless) traditions might be easier than forcing "improvement" without understanding what will happen.0