are you from the US? do you like aspects of 4th of july, such as fireworks and barbecue, but you're burdened by some combination of a troubled relationship with your childhood, with your family, or a remotely cursory knowledge of US history or politics?
allow me to suggest as a replacement: Moon Landing Day!!
celebrated july 20th, on the anniversary of the moon landing, moon landing day is a celebration of the adventurous, pioneering spirit of science, and of space itself. suggested festivities include:
- get/make barbecued food and pretend it was cooked with rocket fuel. yum! :3
- get Otherworldly with dessert. i think chocolate ice cream + blackberry soda floats taste like how a nebula looks...
- wow! some of your neighbors are lighting a bunch of rockets to celebrate moon landing day 16 days early! that's festive of them! watch some of those!
- light your own fireworks! if it makes sense in terms of legal and fire risk! seriously. be smart.
- take a minute to learn about what good news is happening in science right now! there's always something, it's just way quieter than the news about the Horrors
- take a minute to learn stuff about space! there's like a bajillion edutainment space documentaries.
- engage with some other spacey media. watch a space sci-fi movie, boot up outer wilds and get that achievement you haven't gotten around to!
Launch model rockets. Play some KSP. Help yinglets get their small sat launcher built. Help kids make Pringles cans into model rockets. Roast SpaceX fanboys. Post the text of the Outer Space Treaty.
ETA: Also talk, honestly, about Stokely Carmichael's legit beefs with the space program.
