User blog comment:Banningk1979/The ol' Obligatory Thanksgiving Blog/@comment-27544824-20151126234848/@comment-26030957-20151129031834

Ha ha, yeah, I've spent Thanksgiving abroad and it is funny how hard it is to explain to folks not from The States about a holiday in which European aggression against natives is now transformed and celebrated as a practice of thanks.

As a homesteader with an input into old time tradition, I see it basically as a way to celebrate the harvest of late summer and the putting away of and storing that harvest in autumn, and for families to get together after the autumn equinox, before the long nights of winter.

A lot of these winter holidays are a means of humanity keeping up hope and surviving during a bleak time of cold and darkness; though, now the corporations own them, and they've become a time to keep western capitalism alive.