Observations about the world, part eighteen

Photograph of the Atlas globe

New Year's Eve!
Wednesday – December 31, 2025

Much like with Christmas, I do not celebrate New Year's Eve (NYE), because this is a fundamentally material event that has nothing to do with celebrating the aspects of life that I regard as important, those including mostly the sacred aspects of the material domain. Of course, apart from being a profane celebration, in most western countries in particular this event is highly associated with much bad and immoral behavior, and really if anything seems to be celebrated above all else it is the socially acceptable occasion to drink. It's not that I don't believe that people celebrating and being happy is bad—I am of course neutral in regards to this behavior—but what does make me genuinely upset, for it violates my good conscience and really the good conscience of the most upstanding men, when people allow themselves to behave completely like animals, and indeed not only do they allow themselves to behave like animals, they expect others to behave like animals. No, this occasion—which I will from now on refer to as NYE, unless I state otherwise—is really nothing but an occasion to impose disease and corruption on the world. Then beyond the drinking, there is of course a lot of lewd conduct going around, and this is just something I refuse to mention in further detail, but be sure to know that the liberal man will justify this behavior with the false notion that humans are animals and therefore nothing else but the beastly should be expected of them, for doing so would be a form of oppression.

    Apart from the material celebrations going on at the end of the year, I also reject the notion of the Gregorian calendar, because there are a plethora of other calendars, other systems of keeping time, and other ways of knowing dates, that are not based on the idea that the Earth is revolving around the sun, but my biggest problem with the Gregorian calendar is it's imposition of modern time on humanity, something that I just reject outright, and something that truly is essential in order to uphold the material order. Also, why should I pretend that the year is 2025? Why can the year not be -2025, or why not 44? Why should the entire world allow their sense of time and continuity to revolve around the Catholic Church? Yes, it may be that for Europe and the Catholic world that this way of keeping time is efficient and also a reflection of their devotion to Christ, and this I have no problem with, but what I do mind is how time, the Gregorian calendar, is being and has been used to impose the material order on the entire planet, something that is in keeping with the colonial and imperial nature of most western countries, really this evolving and perennial, always returning urge, to keep exploring the world and in doing so imposing western ways on the world, this sense of universalism and global egalitarianism, really the latest iteration of the need to expand the production base. But all of that aside, I do not believe that a man living in rural Myanmar has any reason to partake in this western imposed mass psychosis: indeed, in some western countries, as I've previously stated, this way of keeping time makes perfect sense, but I doubt that the Gregorian calendar is in keeping with the traditional society of Myanmar. Also, it's not like 2025 and 2026 is something that can be described as a natural law: years, dates, and really time itself are material constructions, all aimed at one thing, the perpetuation of the material order.

    Then there's the fact that for most of history the new year and really the new day began at dawn, but today the Sun doesn't even get to make the call, even though the Gregorian calendar is supposedly based on the sun, because in accordance with the Gregorian calendar it's still the individualist nature, the particular circumstance of Earth in relation to the Sun, that matters, and in this sense it seems that most of these people have completely forgotten about the force that the Sun has on Earth. Darkness and light aren't happy or sad circumstances; they're a part of a cosmic cycle that is very poorly understood because modern men only care of the intellectual and the material aspects of knowledge, something I covered in my post from the other day. Either the Earth is a part of the universe or it's not, but these people will never seemingly make up their mind, because liberalism always exist in the nihilistic fog of the rational superposition: you may always find new ways to explain the same thing, and there's really nothing, no force, able to arbitrate or decide the exact state of this rational superposition, a feature of the materialist order.

    At least I will say this about NYE: it's not a bastardization of previous or other traditions that at least partly used to be anchored in sacred knowledge, and this makes NYE less important as a tool for control and manipulation, in the way that Christmas often is or at any rate has become. If you want to celebrate NYE I don't have much else to say other than that I regard the celebrations often as immoral, but I don't believe that they have to be immoral, and I don't believe that there's anything wrong in and of itself to celebrate or mention this occasion, but I do just want to again make you aware of the materialist nature of this celebration, that's really all. At the end of this year, in January, nothing is going to be different, at least not for most people.

Reginald Drax – December 31, 2025.