Energia i świętowanie: od bycia razem do eksploatacji
Energy and celebration: From being together to exploitation

Summary/Abstract: Holiday celebrations are extremely energy-consuming, but they also produce energy that allows the community to survive and affirm the distinctiveness of human beings as a species. For many people, they are the only times of the year when they can satisfy all their needs, feel that nothing is lacking, and finally stop worrying. Celebrating a holiday is also a time when we can feel better than we do in everyday life – at last, we are able to feel the way we would like to always feel. At the same time, such times are associated with waste, the senseless consumption of precious resources. These paradoxes and pitfalls associated with celebration also lie in the fact that it is not only a time of reconciliation, of reuniting what is usually separated, but also something that divides, especially when it comes to class distinctions and ideas of the good life. Considering the intersection of celebration and energy offers an opportunity to show how complex discussions of comfort really are, and how often we overlook the fact that, for many people, comfort is a very rare and fleeting experience. At the same time, the few moments in which it is given to them are subject to harsh criticism, as thoughtless waste, unacceptable excess, or a lack of solidarity.

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