On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:16:03 +0000 "Sally Manton" smanton@hotmail.com writes:
Jacqui wrote:
I tend to doubt
that there was actually many of any official or even officially tolerated such holidays in the Inner Worlds,
I wonder. Holidays are on the list of things all cultures have so I suppose the Federation would recognize the fact that they serve some deep rooted needs. But I'm at a loss as to what they'd go for.
Harvest time festivals, like Thanksgiving? They live in domes, cut off from any sense of the the seasons, and I assume there are some kind of automated hydroponic farms creating year round crops.
Still, maybe they have something like it. Thanksgiving memorializes the Pilgrims first successful harvest. Perhaps the Federation memorializes some equivilant, some point where the domes became self-sufficient after the nuclear wars and knew they'd survive - or perhaps, despite the domes, they were dying off from radiation related ailments and then those radiation drugs were invented, saving them (although Radiation Therapy Day doesn't have a real ring to it).
Christmas and Hanukah would be gone for the obvious reasons and it's unlikely a wintertime festival would replace them (except possibly New Year's) in the absence of winter.
Halloween's gone but they might have some sort of Memorial Day or Day of the Dead.
From: "Ellynne G." rilliara@juno.com To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se
or perhaps, despite the domes, they were dying off from radiation related ailments and then those radiation drugs were invented, saving them (although Radiation Therapy Day doesn't have a real ring to it).
Granted, it doesn't sound festive. But it sounds exactly like something the Federation would come up with.
Maybe they'd have Labour Day, celebrated by doing a double shift (without extra pay) at whatever one's employment actually is.
I should imagine celebrations in general would be grade-specific; for example the Deltas may hold an equivalent of a (non-religious) Yuletide celebration.
And who knows (I'm sorry, I can't resist this) - in the pre-Servalan days, maybe the President's balls were bigger every year!
Apologies
Wildean