festival
A festival is the day when the chains of labor are temporarily unlocked under state license to stage sacred sabotage of productivity. Citizens, under the pretense of unity, clink glasses and beat drums in a joyous delirium of collective idleness. Prescribed ceremonial greetings devolve into a table-side pageant of meaningless ritual, offering an illusion of solidarity. It is the one day when everyone forgets about the tab of guilt that awaits them at dawn.