Because this revolution, like its bloody predecessor, devoured its children in a methodical saturnalia of violence, it was long before the megamachine could produce in sufficient numbers the new elite, whose views and whose way of life conformed to its requirements: the technicians, the bureaucrats, the scientists. (You mean being able to read the road signs and menus in half of Europe and most of Latin America isn’t useful enough) Even worse, French and Spanish students get. The writer Isaak Babel, who demanded the privilege of writing 'badly'-that is, not in conformity with the party line-and who proclaimed that silence, too, might be an effective mode of expression, was soon put out of the way and executed. Originally just one day, over the centuries the festivities grew to last a whole week, starting on December 17 and coinciding with the winter solstice. But woe to prouder souls, who dared open defiance. Happy Saturnalia This ancient Roman holiday honors Saturn, the god of seed-sowing, and celebrates the promise of a spring harvest. Here and there a minority discovered little niches and hideouts where, silently, some portion of untrammelled life could be maintained. The customary greeting for the occasion is 'Io, Saturnalia' io (pronounced 'yo') being a Latin interjection related to 'ho' (as in 'Ho, praise to Saturn' Saturn: Italian drawn work, from an embroidery pattern book of 1587 It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city is in a bustle. It looks like the ritualistic exclamation, much like in io Saturnalia, the line is translated as 'Sing choir of angels' but the Latin says 'Now let the chorus of angels sing' so it seems to be little more than filler. We don’t even get bathroom breaks, never mind seven days. It was a cross between a sound of celebration and surprise. Romans used it both as a greeting and as a reply, in the same way that we might use Merry Christmas, but much louder. Actual slaves in Rome had more freedom than we do. The traditional greeting at this time of year was io, Saturnalia (pronounced Eee-yo or Yo). Well, we would if our overlords would allow it. As an agricultural deity, his symbol was a scythe. "Unfortunately long enurement to the Czarist megamachine had trained the Russians in forms of docile conformity that could hardly be distinguished from willing cooperation. DecemIo, Saturnalia Today we cast off the orders imposed on us from our parasitic overlords and do as we will. The God Saturn Saturnalia was basically a winter solstice festival in honour of the god Saturn, the chthonic (of the earth) Roman god of seed sowing, who was often equated with the Greek god Cronus.
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