Same reason everyone started collecting stamps when I was young when that movie came out about travelling around on Stamps.
Because it's been made trendy and fashionnable. It's the place to be if you want to "belong". Most people just turn on the TV, get told "this event this weekend is going to be lit!" and they go unquestionnably.
This is happening in my (extremely obscure, small) home city on the other side of the world, right now, in the middle of winter (over here)...
It is extremely depressing, to be frank. And kind of alarming.
Also, the same "city council" involved in a lot of these events spent literally hundreds of thousands planting flags everywhere, and changing symbols, to "support Ukraine", on the other side of the world, to no material benefit of anyone in that country...
We have less than 1000 people of Ukrainian extraction (statistically) in the entire state... But admittedly lots of Poles. Not that they care...
Same reason everyone started collecting stamps when I was young when that movie came out about travelling around on Stamps.
Because it's been made trendy and fashionnable. It's the place to be if you want to "belong". Most people just turn on the TV, get told "this event this weekend is going to be lit!" and they go unquestionnably.
This is happening in my (extremely obscure, small) home city on the other side of the world, right now, in the middle of winter (over here)...
It is extremely depressing, to be frank. And kind of alarming.
Also, the same "city council" involved in a lot of these events spent literally hundreds of thousands planting flags everywhere, and changing symbols, to "support Ukraine", on the other side of the world, to no material benefit of anyone in that country...
We have less than 1000 people of Ukrainian extraction (statistically) in the entire state... But admittedly lots of Poles. Not that they care...
It's absolutely bonkers.