Festivus
Foreword
BY JERRY STILLER
In the ancient days when gods played their own games, and had their
own celebrations, tossing lightning bolts between mountaintops,
hurling great boulders-Festivus came out of that. It's a holiday
that celebrates being alive at a time when it was hard to be alive.
There was no Christ yet, no Yahweh, no Buddha. There were great
ruins and raw nature. But there was a kindling spark of hope among
men. They celebrated that great thunderous storms hadn't enveloped
them in the past year, that landslides hadn't destroyed them. They
made wishes that their crops would grow in the fields, that they'd
have food the next year and the wild animals wouldn't attack and eat
them.
There's something pure about Festivus, something primal, raw in the
hearts of humans.
And then there is the idea of an aluminum pole, the centerpiece of
the modern celebration of Festivus. Airplanes are made out of
aluminum to take you through life from one place to another-in one
piece, usually. Aluminum is a type of metal that can say so much if
something is done to it, like turning it into an airplane.
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