Updated 2 years ago
Parties Are About Hope. They offer a brief escape from the real world—and the opportunity to imagine a better one.
We need parties, even as we might dread them. They force us to make time to envision our desires and aspirations. If parties are about fantasy, then to live without them means to live without routinized opportunities for collective fantasy-building. Back during the peak of social distancing, parties felt impossible—and, sometimes, so did the future. Moving forward, we’re going to have to work to reclaim both.
