This is my favorite time of year, but mostly for meteorological reasons, certainly not societal ones. People are incredibly annoying this time of year. Without getting into a big thing, I find it strange that people will suddenly festoon their rotten hovels with multicolor lights, garish and cartoonish balloons, and extravagant light shows choreographed to typically bitchin’ music. Which is great. I’m all for it. But then, right around the new calendar year, they take all that shit down, and I guess pretend it never happened and wait until next Thanksgiving rolls around so they can put the cool shit up again? Why? Why not rock the laser shows all year round? It doesn’t have anything to do with Jesus, so take Christmas out of the equation. If it’s some oppressive HOA, they don’t suddenly rewrite the rules for one month out of the year. Why not stick it to those drones all year round? If it’s because you somehow think the neighbors won’t be completely annoyed my you if you engage in this behavior from the last week of November to the last week of December, wrong there too: your neighbors are annoyed by you during the holiday season. So what is the reason? The reason is, of course, that you are slaves to societal pressures and allowances you don’t even seem to be aware of. That’s the best case scenario. It’s far worse if you are aware of them and just decide to go along with it.

N.P.: “Moonbeam Levels – 2019 Remaster” – Prince