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How the Winter Solstice Can Save Us.
The seasons as an archetypal structure that provides meaning.
The West is starved for meaning—so people find it where they can in sitcom quotes and movies. Movies now based on algorithms, engineered just the right way for their audience, manipulating their emotions for the sake of a box office sale. A long cry from the origin of drama and its depiction of the divine.
Some still find meaning in religions, often imported from other times and places — in doctrines that ignore the world today in favor of a world tomorrow.
Others create extravagant mythologies, tracing the fractals of their lives across the stars and lost continents, distant worlds and crystal frequencies, anywhere but the “negative” problems of today.
Some search through theories of outdated biology; create narratives of alphas and hierarchal breeding patterns, the survival of the fittest, and a throwback to social Darwinism.
Others find their meaning in political parties, sports teams, in dismantling or persevering economic systems or constitutional amendments, in pills, booze or car rims, the digits in their accounts.
Tonight, on the longest night of the year, cultures around the world have sought meaning in the dark, in candlelight, feasts, or…
