The first of May is tomorrow. As you have probably seen hastily scrawled in the street or in the subway in “kill-the-banker” fashion, there seems to loom an ominous threat by some surreptitious minority scheduled for May Day. While this may be the case, a quick history of the holiday should illuminate exactly how May 1st is, first and foremost, a day for you, and why you should not play down your holiday, even if the graffiti that has accompanied it (and the increasingly self-alienating contingent that drew it) is just not your thing.
Dismissive assumptions of comfortable complacency is not enough for tomorrow, and here’s a history of why: Read more…
