Contemplating Festivity in Grim Times

The Second Half of Josef Pieper’s Theory of Festivity

Our times:  a surreal pretense of normality, but behind the clumsily-set veils and mirrors, a vista of darkening-grey.  The mid-wits of several generations cling to a recently-learned habit of “Better Living through Elite-Aided Denial,” even as horrible rumors, ones never refuted on the rare occassions they are even addressed, spread from embalmers, fun…