>>8714 >We don't really celebrate ours, not on a large scale. There are some who quite loudly insist on celebrating it, but they're seen as quite weird for doing so. I hope it is more from comfort and stability than loss and/or cynicism. Even if I would agree that I would still see at a negative regardless.
>In general America has an optimistic spirit at it's core that makes me quite envious. /) Well, it's not all sunshine and roses, some places in the US are like that or have hints of it now (or did like 5 years ago, seems like in a weird way large factions of the left and right both went more nationalistic in their normal hatred of each other but that discussion is beyond the scope of comfy) but yeah I do agree compared to some places I know of that certainly applies.
Making me think of loss, meaning and shared cultural context. Right now too much of a shower thought and I am not sure I could link the weird cultural wound that exist in the USA with the death of Kmart (how consumerist of a American I suppose, LOL) to whatever this is here, so, a fleeting thought it remains for the moment.
