It’s amazing how historical events can get “shanghaied” by corporations, people, or even the cultures who should know better and turned into mass-commercial marketing events. It took me many years to realize that the good Saint Patrick wasn’t known for turning beer green. I still don’t know what the remembrance of martyred Christians has to do with racy greeting cards and scarfing down chocolates in heart-shaped boxes. The current celebrations seem quite incongruous with the original events, and even though I rail against it whenever I get the chance I still follow the piper out of town, dancing along whatever crazy path he should wander.
Humanity is doomed.