Earth Day Sucks But Since It Exists Let's Watch Neil Young Play Electric Guitar

I am generally anti-holiday. I think it does us more harm than good to assign ourselves special days to do things or commemorate things at exactly the same time as everyone else is supposed to be doing them or commemorating them. I know the counter argument is like, “celebrating holidays is part of what binds us together as a society” or whatever. (Or, even better, “Shut up, Dave. And lighten up. And how about just think of someone besides yourself for once in your life and buy a goddamn gift.”) But I don’t like the way that holidays prescribe is a certain time to be doing certain things. I feel like we pay a price in the way that this lets us NOT do these things, many of them good and valuable (like, say buying a gift for someone spontaneously, if we just happen to see something that we think someone we know and love might like.) By establishing this one day of the year where we’re all supposed to care about the planet EXTRA SPECIAL EVEN MORE than usual, don’t we make it that much easier for ourselves to shrug off such concerns the rest of the time? Humans, busy as we are, don’t need any help in this regard. And, at the risk of sounding like an annoying hippie, dervishing in a drum circle, I would argue that the environment is a concern that we would really be better putting more energy and thought towards on a daily basis. (We won’t; we’ll probably choose to perish in flames instead.) But, so, Earth Day sucks really especially hard. But since it’s today, let’s celebrate with the coolest, least annoying hippie ever to dervish in a drum circle, Neil Young. Anyway, remember to recycle today. That will solve everything.