bushbushbush3@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 12 hours agoNew Years Evesh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1630arrow-down147
arrow-up1583arrow-down1imageNew Years Evesh.itjust.worksbushbushbush3@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 12 hours agomessage-square93fedilink
minus-squareilli@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down7·11 hours agoBut it isn’t. Winter solstice already happened before Christmas. New Year, un our current culture, is 100% arbitrary.
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down4·11 hours agoIt’s distorted by a fuckton of history and stuff, including the invention of yearly calendars and manipulating them over millenia, plus whatever christianity added to the mix, but it’s not arbitrary.
minus-squareilli@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·8 hours agoIt is now. I can imagine it started the way so that January 1st falls on solstice. But it doesn’t so the date we set as New Year is pretty arbitrary.
But it isn’t. Winter solstice already happened before Christmas. New Year, un our current culture, is 100% arbitrary.
It’s distorted by a fuckton of history and stuff, including the invention of yearly calendars and manipulating them over millenia, plus whatever christianity added to the mix, but it’s not arbitrary.
It is now.
I can imagine it started the way so that January 1st falls on solstice. But it doesn’t so the date we set as New Year is pretty arbitrary.