“Life Theater” by Porky Timecork

Christmas is coming… (Quit hissing!)

What I like about Xmas is the total immersion of the experience. For an entire month, maybe more in some places, you get lights, music, decorations, movies, foods, seasonal clothing… All the stores and television shows and windows and people scream CHRISTMAS! And there’s no way to escape, especially if you hate it, which I don’t. I love the totality of it.

Why can’t we have a total immersion experience every month—or every other month? We’ve got Halloween (in Oct.) and Xmas (in Dec.), so why can’t we fill the other EVEN months with SOMETHING: costumes, decorations, lighting, sound…

Maybe what I’m thinking of is LIFE THEATER. Weave a narrative into daily life; significantly transform the environment you live and work in; change your costumes to match the theme. Every two months, come up with a new theme, OR establish some fake “holidays” and push them on the rest of the world. (They do it to us, so why can’t we do it back??? Except, we’ll make our holidays MUCH more interesting!) Keep pushing until they become REAL for everyone else, too. Within a generation or two, we could have complete environment transformation—and individual human role characterizations for each “holiday.” Develop interesting characters that people can dress as, embody, and BECOME (like the Lord of Misrule—or Margaret Thatcher.) There will be a STORY, a narrative, for humans to immerse themselves in, like a shamanistic experience. The costumes and environment will induce a “spirit” in the participants, and they will feel themselves, for the duration of the holiday, BECOMING their character. (And the next year, they can be somebody else!)

That would be fun—and much less boring than our current calendar, which only has a couple of really FUN holidays per year. WE DEMAND MORE!!!

If you have any good ideas, let us know! We’ll publish the good ideas as NEW HOLIDAYS and get this Theater of Life underway!

—Porky Timecork

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[Originally posted 18 Apr. 2013 @ The Primitive Entertainment Workshop]