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+Celebrants are expressing holiday cheer inside as well, through old-fashioned Yuletide activities like gingerbread-house building and garland-stringing as people seek out what Medley describes as a Norman Rockwell-esque Christmas. ā€œI want to evoke that feeling of home ā€” because weā€™ve all been home,ā€ she says. (It doesnā€™t hurt, of course, that Christmas crafts are highly, highly Instagrammable.) +

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+Itā€™s a scene that is playing out across the country. ā€œOver the last two months, weā€™ve seen a 45 percent increase in holiday lighting over the same time frame last year, and a 42 percent increase with wreaths and garland,ā€ says Andrew Wolf, a holiday merchant at Ace Hardware. And John DeCosmo, president of Ulta-Lit Tree Company, says, ā€œLight sets sales are up, outdoor decor sales are up, and artificial Christmas tree sales are up, so yes, we are seeing it. Our own sales online are up over 30 percent this year.ā€ +

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+Caroline Moss, an author and host of the podcast Gee Thanks Just Bought It, is doing an outdoor lights display for the first time and saw no reason to wait until after Thanksgiving to illuminate her home. ā€œI put up an outdoor tree and outdoor lights on November 2,ā€ she confesses. Moss, who relocated to Los Angeles this year with her husband Dan, was concerned about what her new neighbors might think, though she neednā€™t have worried. ā€œI was very nervous because I didnā€™t want to be seen as the crazy new neighbors. I texted my next-door neighbor, and she was like, ā€˜Oh, weā€™re doing it too.ā€™ā€ +

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+According to DeCosmo, the day after Thanksgiving is typically the most popular day of the year for Christmas decorating. But this year, people like Moss got an early start, perhaps wanting to wear their holiday cheer on their lawns. Bronson van Wyck, a decorator who services a high-end clientele, saw a noted increase in business ā€” especially among early birds. ā€œWe would typically do somewhere between six to 10 homes for Christmas, and we would probably have booked them by about [mid-November],ā€ he says. ā€œThis year we had a dozen bookings before Labor Day.ā€ +

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+Van Wyck is capitalizing in another way: For $475, his website offers something called a ā€œSugar and Spice, Sensory Delights Packageā€ featuring ā€œ(1) Evergreen, cedar and juniper wreath adorned with dried citrus, cinnamon stick and faux berries hand-crafted by genuine Van Wyck Elves,ā€ a full-color smart LED light bulb from GE, and a tube of those magic crystals for tossing in the fire (Amazon retail price: $15.26). Van Wyck isnā€™t the only one trotting out elves. On the new Netflix show Holiday Home Makeover with Mr.Ā Christmas, interior designer Benjamin Bradley, the titular Mr.Ā Christmas, and his team (yes, of elves) gives four families holiday home makeovers that feature hand-flocked trees, Della Robbia-style wreaths, lucite diamonds, hanging lanterns, and luminescent deer. Mr.Ā Christmas, in his own words, goes ā€œChristmas balls to the walls.ā€ +

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+Preston Davis, the editor of Keep it Chic, is another newcomer to festive outdoor holiday displays. ā€œI have never put lights outside or in windows and I plan to do that this year! I think itā€™s important to show that we are here, weā€™re celebrating,ā€ Davis says. +

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+In holiday seasons past, Davis hosted a series of luncheons to visit with old friends returning home for the holidays. But with travel and large gatherings off the table, Davis is thinking about building a gingerbread house and making old-fashioned popcorn garland with her adult daughters, ages 20 and 25 ā€” provided theyā€™re able to safely travel home. ā€œI plan on really ramping up, the tree with the popcorn strings and all that stuff. I really want to go all out,ā€ she says. +

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+Sheā€™s also hoping her kids will want in on the fun. ā€œI want them to help decorate and do some of those traditions, gingerbread houses and cookies. Maybe Iā€™ll even get them to produce sugar cubes for Santa. Who knows?!ā€ She views these hands-on activities as a way to break her habit of multitasking ā€” which, she acknowledges, ā€œtakes a lot of value away from the time I spend with my family.ā€ +

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+Itā€™s no surprise that in this socially distant year, with touch and physical proximity largely off-limits, people are finding creative visual and aural ways to connect with others. Springtimeā€™s nightly clapping and cheering for first responders beget the summerā€™s illegal fireworks shows, which gave way to giant skeletons come Halloween. Now, at Yuletide, the creative means have become literal, with people taking up those highly Instagrammable crafting projects. +

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+In keeping with the nostalgic tone of this Christmas, Elizabeth Schulte of Salem, Oregon, is stepping up her garland-making, using dried fruits like oranges and apples alongside more traditional popcorn and cranberries. The dried apples are the literal fruits of illicit labor; she engaged in a practice called scrumping to obtain them. ā€œIt means, um, liberating apples that are maybe not necessarily legally yours, from a place where thereā€™s no one really necessarily guarding them,ā€ Schulte says. To atone for the scrumping, sheā€™s also considering adopting another historic holiday activity: wassailing. ā€œItā€™s where they would go around and sing Christmas songs to the orchardā€ to encourage the trees to grow more apples, she says. ā€œConsidering how we have just been robbing apples all over the state, maybe we should go and give them some encouragement.ā€ +

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+Schulte is incorporating nostalgia in another way. ā€œIā€™m going to use some strange glitter on one of the garlands, I think maybe on the pine cones.ā€ Strange glitter? Schulte explains that before World War II, glitter was made mostly from ground glass out of Germany, and she wanted the real deal. ā€œItā€™s quite annoying to find, I found some online,ā€ she says. +

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+The German ground-glass glitter presented another problem, albeit one with a very 2020 solution. ā€œIā€™m low-key concerned that Iā€™m going to get ground glass into my lungs and eyes,ā€ Schulte says. ā€œI think in order to safely use it, I have to wear a mask.ā€ +

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+All of this really boils down to capitalism, doesnā€™t it? And not just the economic system we call capitalism, but the way of life that system promotes. Thereā€™s the precarity problem on the one hand, and then thereā€™s the reality that our value as human beings is bound up with our value as workers, and that seems like a recipe not just for burnout but for a deep spiritual malaise. +

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+Yeah, itā€™s such a complicated dynamic. I was reading this old book from 1951 by a sociologist talking about the American understanding of work, which he saw as the culmination of a couple of ideals. One is this idea that working hard without reward is evidence of deep virtue, and if you donā€™t work like that you internalize a sense of guilt. Thatā€™s kind of the whole Calvinist work ethic. +

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+But thereā€™s another component, which is this notion that weā€™re supposed to do what we love, which he attributes to the Renaissance style of artisans who worked to produce art, even if itā€™s a wagon wheel or something like that, and thatā€™s somehow operating outside of capitalism. And I think itā€™s fine to believe that work is good and that idle hands make mischief, or whatever. Itā€™s also fine to believe that work ought to be fulfilling. But the ethos weā€™re operating in says that work is good when youā€™re most like a robot and you make money. But we donā€™t talk about that. We just talk about work as ā€œgood.ā€ +

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+George Carlin had this great line about the American dream. He said ā€œThey call it a dream because you have to be asleep to believe it,ā€ and thatā€™s kind of what weā€™re talking about. This fantasy that if you work hard, if you matriculate through the system, youā€™ll find your footing and have a stable life is just dead. Millennials might be the first generation to really confront this, although Iā€™m sure Gen-Xers would disagree. +

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+Yeah, well, and I think people who werenā€™t white and middle class already knew that for a long time, right? That the meritocracy at the heart of the American dream was just a lie. And now that white middle-class people are discovering itā€™s a lie, itā€™s become a majority consensus. Of course, as a society, we shouldā€™ve been paying attention before. But here we are. +

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+The chapter on ā€œparenting burnoutā€ hit me hard as a new dad. We have a society thatā€™s arranged as if every family has a caretaker whoā€™s home all the time, but the reality is that both parents have to work in most families and no one has any answers for this disjunction. So parents, especially mothers, are just collapsing under the weight of impossible responsibilities. +

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+Itā€™s a huge component. Fear of this exact problem is why a lot of people, myself included, are opting out of parenthood. And Iā€™ll say, there are plenty of good reasons why people should feel free to choose not to be parents, but being frightened about the mental load thatā€™s going to fall on you, and struggling with financial precarity, shouldnā€™t be one of them. Weā€™re supposed to live in one of the most developed countries in the world ā€” having children shouldnā€™t be this hard. We ought to make this easier. Other countries have done it. But we havenā€™t. +

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+Let me push you a little because I think the book may let millennials off the hook by casting them as helpless victims of outside forces. Is it possible that millennials have too eagerly absorbed the values that imprison them, and that if they choose to do so, couldā€™ve revolted against this culture rather than working so hard to succeed within its parameters? +

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+You know how ideology works. Itā€™s so hard to push back against something that you donā€™t realize is an ideological force. I grew up in a culture that told me to go to college and get a degree and do what I love no matter what. I didnā€™t realize I was choosing an ideology when I was consuming those things. I just thought I was doing what people did. I think thatā€™s true for most of us. +

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+Weā€™re all surrounded by media that tells us these are the things weā€™re supposed to do. Itā€™s in all the movies, with characters saying, ā€œIā€™m going to Stanford no matter what it takes.ā€ Or itā€™s in Steve Jobā€™s commencement speech, telling everyone to ā€œdo what you love, if youā€™re not doing what you love, quit and go find it.ā€ And lots of millennials saddled themselves with student debt in the hopes that it would pay off. +

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+When I was in college, people thought it was the obvious thing to do. Itā€™s a low-interest debt that will pay for itself because youā€™re investing in your future. This was the idea of student debt as it was conceived in the ā€˜70s and ā€˜80s, when overall debt numbers were so much smaller. But tuition just kept rising, debt payments kept rising, the labor market kept shifting, and most people have found it impossible to get out from under all the debt they thought they had to acquire if they wanted to succeed. +

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+There was also public student loan forgiveness problems that we were sold. We were told you can go into a career thatā€™s underpaid and under-resourced and it wonā€™t matter because in 10 years that debt will zero out. A lot of people made decisions with that knowledge in hand. They trusted the programs would endure. But it hasnā€™t worked out that way. Itā€™s such a white, middle-class bourgeois thing, right? We expected the government to keep a promise and were surprised when it didnā€™t. But an Indigenous person who grew up 10 miles from you is like, ā€œOf course the governmentā€™s not going to keep their promise.ā€ They know that you donā€™t trust anything the government tells you. +

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+I really do think that being able to identify whatā€™s going on is a huge first step. To recognize and say, ā€œI donā€™t want it to be this way anymore,ā€ thatā€™s a big deal. Many people donā€™t even have the time or mental space to arrive at that point. But if you get there, and you want to be analytical about your life and lay it down flat and say, ā€œWhatā€™s going on? Where did I get this idea? How can I look at this idea from a distance and see that itā€™s not necessarily true just because I believed it, or because Iā€™ve done it for so long?ā€ Because you donā€™t have to have an Instagram account. You donā€™t have to have a Facebook account. You donā€™t have to be on Twitter. You donā€™t have to answer that email at 11 pm. That doesnā€™t mean you have to quit those things, but if you can articulate that to yourself, you can just see it as a choice you get to make. +

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+It was the international popularity of BTS, particularly ā€œDynamite,ā€ that ultimately prompted Korean lawmakers to introduce the bill, which essentially carves an idol-shaped exemption in the Military Service Act. In October, ruling party member Noh Woong-rae pushed the legislation forward on behalf of the band, arguing that its members should be allowed to serve the nation in other ways to meet its service requirements. And those who have advocated in the past for changing this law have frequently cited BTS in their arguments. ā€œI think that members of BTS should also get the exemption,ā€ speedskater Song Kyung-taek told the New York Times in 2018 when discussing the draft. ā€œWhen South Koreans go abroad, we can mention BTS to explain where we come from.ā€ +

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