I remember my dad telling me about my grandpa jumping up out of his chair, grabbing the now burning Christmas tree, and yeeting it out the front door.

It’s one thing for one person to get the bright idea of exposing a highly combustible, dried out tree to multiple open flames. But the fact that much of western society was like, “You know what? We should totally do that. What could possibly go wrong?” I just… I don’t even have words.