Intro

Can a conspicuous consumerist society be healthy?

Celebrate. [Middle English celebraten, from Latin celebrre, celebrt-, to frequent, celebrate, from celeber, celebr-, frequented, famous.]

1. To observe (a day or event) with ceremonies of respect, festivity, or rejoicing. See Synonyms at observe.
2. To perform (a religious ceremony): celebrate Mass.
3. To extol or praise: a sonnet that celebrates love.
4. To make widely known; display: Ňa determination on the author's part to celebrate... the offenses of anotherÓ (William H. Pritchard).
5. To observe an occasion with appropriate ceremony or festivity.
6. To perform a religious ceremony.

If celebrate is the act or rejoicing, celebration is the event of rejoicing, with etimological religious connotations. More interesting still, the word celebrity based on its roots would mean to rejoicing upon itself. In previous civilizations to ours, celebrations would take place, but life did not revolve around festivities as it does today. The modern era, aside from being distinguished by grand technological advances, it has gone through a process of transformation in which originals stop existing, and life becomes a constant simulacrum, this simulacrum is the perpetual celebration.

Unaware of the consequences their actions carry, humanity goes through life, exercising decisions based on the choices others make. Philosophers state society is headed to a desensitized destruction of the self. Yet there's no way of knowing if these apocalyptic visions are real. Or is it?