To be honest, I don't see anyone celebrating their roots. It's a day that has been hijacked by big business to con people into the idea that they should go out together and "make merry" and get drunk on crap faux-Irish beer.
If I went up to any one of you and said, "You ARE going to go out on August 14th, because it's the special day of Azimuth of Balrog of the Cistern cult, and you're going to drink some beer you never normally drink." you'd tell me where to shove it. But big business, mass media, and the ovine mind of the masses, has conned you all into it under the semblence of the arbitrarily chosen day of a saint of a religion that most people don't practice.
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Date: 2005-03-17 10:15 pm (UTC)If I went up to any one of you and said, "You ARE going to go out on August 14th, because it's the special day of Azimuth of Balrog of the Cistern cult, and you're going to drink some beer you never normally drink." you'd tell me where to shove it. But big business, mass media, and the ovine mind of the masses, has conned you all into it under the semblence of the arbitrarily chosen day of a saint of a religion that most people don't practice.
R, partypooper. :-)