Home Fires and calendar reform SPOILERS

Dave Tallman · 03 Feb 2011, 01:00 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:00:19 -0700
Subject: (urth) Home Fires and calendar reform **SPOILERS**
Message-ID: <AANLkTikCsbkXr5QkAvF8ZRhF20un33JeD9Covxoq239C at mail.gmail.com>

Darth Ed wrote:

Of course not. This future society is fully secularized. Instead of
getting married,
> people get contracted, etc., so we shouldn't expect anyone to be saying
> "Merry Christmas" or getting the day off from work. It's just another day
> to them.


Christmas as a secular holiday has a lot of momentum, since gift-giving is a
major boon to business. What could have killed that? Possibly the
energy-poor future would have seen it as an unnecessary waste of resources,
and stopped the secular celebration.
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