Tradition

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Tradition

Title text: Tradition is whatever had just faded when I was 12.

Votey

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Christmas has gone astray! We need to go back to its roots!

You mean the 17th and 18th century puritan view that christmas isn't a biblical holiday and shouldn't be important?

No!

You mean the victorian era push to make christmas a reserved, spiritual holiday oriented around family and childhood?

You mean the medieval tradition founded in harvest time wassailing and lords sharing alcohol and food with the peasantry?

No!

No!

I mean specifically the early 19th century period in which the bonds of feudalism were long gone but the tradition of yearly social inversion still lingered, so instead of an orchestrated period of misrule, you had bands of people wandering the streets, gambling, getting wasted, cross-dressing, fighting, fornicating, and breaking rich people's windows for 12 days straight!

And so...

Finally, the true spirit of christmas!

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I think jesus would've wanted us to steal more liquor on this day which we pretend was his birthday.

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