Resolving  the  Dichotomy
of
Vacation  and  Civilization

by
Daniel E. Schultz, An. Cr.

The sum total of a group's social, political and religious elements directed by a set of laws or principles which play upon the most sordid instincts and passions of the individual wherein relationships between individuals and the group are continually exploited, each by the other, for the sole purpose of the accumulation of wealth by either.

A deliberately maintained and socially transmitted behavior pattern of aesthetic and intellectual components directed toward a goal of relinquishment of responsibility within a predetermined time frame.

It is important to note that while Civilization and Vacation are distinct concepts, they are by no means mutually exclusive. Vacation and Civilization move in a continuous contradiction, a mutual exploitation, so that any advance for one is a regression for the other.

The act of Vacationing, as we know it, requires wealth (bottle rockets, speeding tickets, broken windows and liquor don't come cheap); hence a prescribed return to and dependence on Civilization to replenish that wealth.     Vacation, however, is also the antidote for Civilization. The accompanying stress of a preoccupation with affluence, in a Civilized world, brings with it a need for physical and mental relief, uncivilized relief, a vacation!

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