Why Celebrating New Year's Is the Worst Thing You Can Do - Machiavelli
Every year, millions of people celebrate the New Year as if it were a rebirth — they drink, they count down, they make promises they will never keep, and they convince themselves that a change in the calendar means a change in their life — but Machiavelli would have seen this ritual for what it truly is: a psychological trap. Celebrating the New Year is not a symbol of renewal, it is a ritual of delay; it trains people to postpone responsibility, to defer action, and to outsource discipline to time instead of will, until the calendar becomes an excuse, "next year" becomes a hiding place, and…
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