May Day

I feel like May Day is an odd holiday. The very fact that the country that created it does not celebrate it on the day shows that people are easily manipulated. In fact, the holiday itself is trying to say "down with the man" and the establishment and so forth, but in a way it is in itself another large figure that plays an equivalent role. Now, for the people that truly celebrate the holiday because they support working groups and unions are right to celebrate, but I think that the holiday is lost upon many people. Even the equivalent holiday in America, Labor Day, is a day of parading and American pride, which forces you to spend the day off BBQ-ing, which means you have to buy the stuff which means not everybody is even getting the chance to celebrate, which is unfair to an extent. A truly fair alternative would be a day where everybody takes the day off and the country shuts down, except for the positions deemed necessary to have functioning.