This should be higher. The days have become longer which means the humans will not die in a dark cold forever winter. The warmth will return, the crops will have another season and the lengthening of daylight hours is the harbinger of future good tidings.
The creator of the meme is in fact the idiot who doesn’t realize his entire physical sustenance is dependent on this cycle.
Edit: I’m an idiot who didn’t realize I’m using some weird sorting algo and apparently winter solstice was already highly upvoted.
This should be higher. The days have become longer which means the humans will not die in a dark cold forever winter. The warmth will return, the crops will have another season and the lengthening of daylight hours is the harbinger of future good tidings.
The creator of the meme is in fact the idiot who doesn’t realize his entire physical sustenance is dependent on this cycle.
Edit: I’m an idiot who didn’t realize I’m using some weird sorting algo and apparently winter solstice was already highly upvoted.
Did you read the Helliconia series?
I did not. Hadn’t even heard of it. I do love to read though. Would you recommend the series?
Aldiss is a New Wave author, I like a lot of his stuff (eg Supertoys Last All Summer Long), although not all his stuff is New Wave (eg Non Stop).
IMO Helliconia is enjoyable but very long. There’s not a whole lot that happens however, it’s memorable.
But why celebrate the new year 10 days after the solstice? It would make way more sense to celebrate it on the solstice.
Well because that’s when January 1st is. duh
/s
We need to make sure that the days have started getting longer
Because we all remember what happened when we tried the honor system. “Trust, but verify.”