That's short for Stone Age Day
It took me about 5 minutes to come up with what I’m about to tell you for what global holiday I would invent if I had the power – Stone Age. In our current day and age, everything we do is either completely automated, or heavily reliant on technology. So, imagine us going a day without technology. Whiles that might be a hard day to get through, I believe it will help many people connect back to the real world and force a lot of social media junkies to get some dopamine detox. Social media is an amazing tool, but at the same time, I don’t think many people realize how enslaved we’ve become to it.
For this holiday, I initially thought about a lot of things, but one thing common among them all was that they were all problems we have because of the evolution of Tech. Social media and loneliness + short attention spans, cars and fumes, industries and fumes, it goes on and on and on.
How it’s celebrated
It will be on the first day of every year, so basically on the same day as new year. There will either be no use of tech gadgets or very minimal use only when absolutely necessary. Telecommunications will be offline and so will the internet, cars will be packed, industries will break. Of course, in cases of emergency or absolute need, exceptions can be made. This part is where controversies about the holiday may arise, because what exactly is the definition of an emergence or absolute need? I believe a the short answer to that would be life and death situations. If the lack of use of Technology will immediately or directly kill someone, and there are no other alternatives, then that is an exception. Everything else is a luxury and will be foregone on Stone Age.
But what do I mean by immediately and directly?
Let’s take a case study. Electricity is a technological invention. If shutting down power at hospital because of Stone Age Day will kill someone (realistically, it will), then hospitals will be an exception to the holiday. But if for instance, your reason is that cooking with fire is too hard, you better starve. Lol that’s part of the essence of the holiday, Susan. Get to appreciate what it was like being born in medieval times. It's back to cooking over a burning fire, using horses and pigeons to deliver messages, and the painstaking lag period that comes with those waits.
Imagine the mixed emotions that would bring to new year’s. The one day that many people are on vacation or travelling and would probably want to post on social media, the holiday requires you to do the opposite. Just go on your holidays, enjoy your time, stay present, and tell no one about it whiles it’s happening. Oh and you better had traveled before new years because cars won’t be a thing that day. So, you’re either traveling beforehand, or your vacation will be a local vacation to that beautiful pond in your neighborhood you’ve never really noticed. If we do it right, even our environment will feel different on this holiday.
The point of the holiday is not to suffocate people, but to get us to appreciate the simplicity of life before the complication that is technology came into the equation, and at the same time to appreciate how privileged we are to have been born when we were born.
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