Happy (insert whatever you want here) Day

Due to timing, of course this is about national holidays. They’re ridiculous, let’s just get that out there.

Holidays. They’re only good for one thing: a day off. Everyone loves, needs, deserves a day off. Because in the deepest crevices of our poor overworked hearts, we all hate our jobs. We may like the act of working but the tax on our time, and the constant negotiation of renumeration for it, is a bit of a shit exchange. Yet, we have no choice because this is the system of living we’ve all had little choice in adopting if we want such niceties as food and a roof and little electronic trinkets without resorting to abject moral methodologies, like freeloading or worse, downright villainy.

Villainy such as pillaging a territory for resources, displacing the people who occupy it, then creating a system of laws and enforcement to eradicate them, through cultural, epistemological and bodily genocide.

The US was particularly good at this, while Canada has had a harder time, although they really gave it a go. Of course, they’re still trying.

Americans like to think of Canada as a nice country. But they mistake kindness for politeness, the most sly backhanded hangover from its British roots. That skill is perfected in the Southern US as well, bless your heart.

Start off slow today, eh? Have a nice simple coffee. Maybe make a good, healthy breakfast of granola and yoghurt. Later today you can fire up that grill, maybe throw on some spot prawns if they’re still in season. Thank your ancestors for the breath you take, and take time to think about the ground you stand on. Y’know, be a human in the world.