The Windleverse

It is but a week till that crazy holiday called Christmas here in the real world. What other holiday causes riots over crappy laptops, or gets people to cram themselfs into malls and retail outlets just so they can find that “prefect gift” at the “prefect price”?

Christmas would really have a hard time existing in the Windleverse. The people of planet Mack as I have mentioned before do not have a strong sense of ownership. As a citizen of planet Mack nothing belongs to you personally, but you may possess anything as long as possessing it does not hinder others who need access to the item. Family is also not a strongly understood concept. When two people decide that they wish to procreate they are given the blessing of the community. This is not difficult to obtain but necessary because the child will be not only the parents responsibility but the communities responsibility as a whole. The child’s first year of life is spent primarily with one motherly figure. As the child gets older it is rased and guilded by more and more members of the community. In a sense whenever you are spending time with anyone you are spending time with family. Organized religion does not exsist and there for does not play into any holidays in the Windleverse.

So in my search for a Windleverse holiday to compare to Christmas the other morning I remembered the special time of fsckmas. That is short for File System Check all Master Systems. This is a time when all the computer systems of planet Mack are allowed to be shut down for maintenance. Because planet Mack has such a global community and it’s culture is strongly driven by it’s global communications network this down time allows the people of Mack to focus on more local parts of their culture. Fsckmas is often celebrated with close friends spent playing games and having fun. It is also a reminder of how important the communications network is as a whole and where the people of Mack have evolved from.

If you are a Christian, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of your lord and savior Jesus Christ. Even though historians agree that Jesus was not born on December 25th, the 25th of December seems like as good of day as any to celibrate his birth. After all, the cool groovy pegans are celebrating winter solstice anyway. The Christians might as well get in on the festivities.

The craziness of Christmas does not end with religious celebration. If you are not a Christian you too can celebrate in the commercialized version of Christmas. To play the game all it takes is a small donation to your local retail stores, some wise gift choosing and you shall be well on your way with holiday joy and merriness. Make sure to push and shove your way to the front of the lines while you are there.