Take the time today to enjoy yourselves, whether that's with family, friends, pets or just watching some classic Christmas films if the above not an option.
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I found a bunch of old Christmas TV specials from the 60s and 70s on youtube I've been going through. Johnny Cash, Dean Martin, etc....
An interesting time capsule into life before my time.
I watched an Andy Williams 1965 (or so) Christmas special last year and it damned near broke me.
I just watched a Johnny Cash special from 1979 where it had some fun little song for children along the lines of "you aren't a bird, so don't try to fly. You aren't a squirrel, so don't try to live in a tree. Just be happy with who you are" which would be downright reactionary and cause it to get one of those little "this was a product of its time" warnings on it if it aired today.
Get you a few Christmas movie DVDs and a player while they exist. Extremely cheap now a days.
While it seems insane now, there was a time when white people could just be friends with and trust the randos in their neighborhoods to not have any ill intentions. Its the Americana idea that most of us wish to return to, somehow.
If this side of things ever hopes to build some institutions instead of expecting people throw their kids to the university system to be taught by their enemies, it's going to have to encourage people like Doc Brown to identify and apprentice bright kids.
While I'm on team "not everyone needs to go to college", it'd still be a shame to see genuine talent wasted on something far below their abilities because nothing exists to cultivate those talents.
But putting that all aside for the moment, everyone else in the town thinks Doc Brown's crazy, so perhaps he just likes being around the one person who doesn't (and perhaps even looks up to him), even if that one person is a teenage kid.