Do You Guys Notice Most Events, Ceremonial Services, Celebrations & Gatherings Are Hollow!?

Although this is not particularly a "new" thing, I notice that the pervasiveness of it is worsening, and it seems to also reflect on every category of Life, whether a Holiday, Wedding, Funeral, Birthday or other event that is "supposedly" designed to celebrate or welcome "something" specific in that event.

You will find that the people there talk little about, or even sell very little useful merchandise or have anything to do with discussions of the event at hand, with what we are all supposed to be there for.

I've even noticed this in attending Funerals and Weddings for others in more recent years, of which I stupidly agreed to go to them, and I believe now that I will reject going to these events even if it seems disrespectful.

But I notice that these "Events" are used less and less to have anything to do with anything we are supposedly celebrating or reflecting on, and just given as an excuse to celebrate or meet up with others.

Yet these same "people" will rarely or never agree to meet up for any other random reasons to hang out.

Most Modern Events, the actual "event" or "person" takes up less than 10% of the celebratory or focal point of the event, and the rest revolves around Food, Junk Merchandise which is not useful but more like ridiculous trinkets like jewelry, wooden carvings, t-shirts and the same old merchandise over and over and over no matter what the event is.

Even at a funeral and wedding I've recently attended, people there almost seemed to be "allergic" to discussing anything about the people that the event is recognizing, and everything only went onto talking about other "topics" including when the Food will come out, and a lot of conversations that resort to sarcastic jokes.

This is especially more true with Caucasian People than it is with other cultures, but it is no means non-existence in other cultures as well.

I almost feel like Humans just want to give any excuse to celebrate now, and if you notice even in recent years there will always be a "National Day" for this or that, could be "National Donut Day" or "National Coffee Day" or "National Margarita Day" and they make it excuse to make Quasi-parties.

Even German Events have been very bogus here in America in more recent years too, particularly if you go to events like the Weihnachtsmarkt, at least in America.

I stopped going to even these German Events years ago because they are stupid, but every year you go to some kind of event, you always find the following things occur:

1. Prices go up for Admission, Food and other Items.

2. Specialty Souvenirs or things that are loved about the place, tend to go away eventually.

3. Food quality begins to get replaced with cheaper or inferior ingredients and varieties, even frozen food being used in its place.

I swear, from some many years now, it almost feels like any Festival, Fair, Funeral, Wedding or Holiday event I've been too, is as if they are all the same, and I have the same conversations with Loser NPC's and all the same type of flavorless merchandise is put out, and there's always tons of it.

I really wonder if these "vendors" can even making a living off of what they sell, because let's be real. They might call when they sell as "Art", but a lot of it is just pointless, useless collector junk that many people will buy and really never use or get over with in the very short term.

In the past, it used to be too that you would have more socialization at these events related to the subject matter of why we are all there.

I've noticed this is rarely occurring anymore, and people love to talk about their personal lives or other issues instead, including political topics.

What the the point of going to an "event" where there is very little the event has to do with it "in name!?"

With all the expense made for vendor tables, setting up equipment, including food vendors, for hardly any reason.

Also, at Most Celebrations or Holiday Events, the "organizers" say even Restaurants or Caterers or whomever they are at these events, will cut portion sizes, even serve beverages out of plastic cups instead of glass, and issue paper and plastic cutlery and plates.

Now, I understand the reasons they are doing this of course, it's besides the point, but it just goes to illustrate that Modern Mankind is willing to "water down" the quality of what is supposed to be sacred substance and even ritualistic to a degree at Special Events or Celebrations, all in favor of Managing and Coping with the reality we have of "Overpopulation", and probably people in all likelihood that they despise even serving, let's be honest. That's how artificial our society constructs are these days.

Even Restaurants, if you go to a Restaurant say on New Years Eve, you order drinks, and many of these places will serve you almost exclusively out of plastic cups instead of glass, at least by a certain point of the evening in the establishment.

A Celebration or Holiday, is supposed to be an "exceptionally" special circumstance where there should be no expense spared in not only maintaining the same quality as what is normally served, but also in attempting to exceed that.

Humans seem to not be able to understand this, and that if there are so many people attending the event that risks of dishes and glasses being dropped and also because of the additional work need to be done to wash all the dishes or other items, Humans prefer to take the lazy route and choose to "cheapen" the experience at everyone else's expense, and pollute the environment further, and REFUSE to recognize the issue of overpopulation and the fact that going to an event should not be an experience where we are packed like sardines, if even inside of a sitting restaurant.

It seems the only events now where you get what you pay for are basically just Concerts, because yes, you will get to "see" the actual band unless it's a Tribute Concert, and they will be selling relevant merchandise there, which is stuff you actually WANT such as their records, and you can be confident to meet with others who have gone to other concerts of theirs or who are big fans.

Other than this, almost all other events seem to be a joke nowadays, including Holidays.

Such a boring world.