FDR literally changed the rules for how to calculate the date of Thanksgiving (from "the last Thursday of November" to "the *fourth* Thursday of November") because it so happened that that year (1939) it would add an extra week of Christmas shopping and boost the economyhttps://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1329826132997320706 …
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I'm actually kind of serious about this, part of what makes winter scary is that the predators start to become ravenous and desperate, including the human ones Trick-or-treating is the cutesy tradition we've layered over that ancient primal fear
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The Black Friday hordes trampling retail workers to death for a $150 TV are, of course, the serious adult channel for this sublimated impulse I do think that Black Friday rage is intensified by how it's the people literally huddled outside in the cold fighting to get indoors
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