Post #2064310
2026-02-01 06:49 UTC
There isn't Only One Way towards winning a 4-day workweek with as-needed negotiation of which day is off.
But if it were an organized part of society, a fixed religious practice regularly occuring in an 8 or 9 day week would absolutely be one such path.
But secular concerns aside, there's also just. the aesthetic frustration I have here.
Like, why are the months (okay "seasons" says the Wikipedia page but if they have a specified and enumerated count of days, that's a month imo) contiguous?
Why isn't anyone exploring what the experiential effects of the next day starting at tea-time? (especially placing it in the middle of productive time. Feels, I dunno, interesting.)
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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2026-02-01 06:58
I'm sure I'm doing a lot of fundamentally misunderstanding what Discordianism is and is about. I feel like probably a lot of this is coming from me feeling strongly that "gosh, SOMEBODY ought to do something like this" and making the not-really-well-justified assumption that "surely the Discordians would aim for this". ... Maybe I shoulda taken this feeling to the toki-ponists instead. Tho they'd probably just build towards some fascinating intricate system of distinguishable-yet-not-specifically-intepretable shades of grey about "very few moon-orbits" or "most of a solar-orbit" that I'd barely be ableto make hears or tails of...