Culture Watch

Welcome to Culture Watch where we examine the traditions that shape our world view. It's Springtime again which was a time of celebration for our pagan ancestors. Every May all the nubile maidens would gather outdoors and strip naked for a sprightly dance around a tall pole to symbolize nature's rebirth. Then they would get dressed and go home. The pole dance has survived right up to the present in most strip clubs, though it is now performed by individuals rather than a collective. And do you ever wish that you could pass your sins to an innocent creature so you could make yourself perfect by killing it? In ancient times when people felt guilty they gave themselves a new start by slaughtering a goat. Sometimes people would even be sacrificed if they won the lottery. Today, however, we have learned to just blame smokers for everything. They're already killing themselves with their life shortening habit. Shaking hands as a gesture of trust was originally expressed by rendering the hand incapable of holding a weapon, well, at least the hand used for the shake. The other was free to reach behind the back for a gun. The modern hand may hold invisible weapons like radioactive slivers or microscopic organisms, causing the handshake to lose more and more to the friendly wave as the greeting of choice for new acquaintances. We don't burn witches any more, thank goodness. That's one custom we can afford to leave in the past. The closest thing we have to them now is the political purge, which rounds up enemies of the government and kills them to stop them from making trouble. For instance, Julius Caesar would have survived if he would have got those assassins in the Senate before they got him. Given its usefulness in establishing peace and order, the political purge is likely to stay in practice for years to come.
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