Thanksgiving as Contemplative Repair

Treat Thanksgiving not merely as a holiday of consumption or family reunion but as a civic ritual for collective contemplation that restores narrative continuity and stable identity. Framing a mainstream national holiday around slow reflection could be a low‑cost, scalable cultural policy to counter fragmentation from social media and hyper‑marketed individualism. — Recasting a major holiday as an intentional public ritual offers a practical lever for cultural repair that policymakers, schools, and civic leaders can adopt to rebuild social cohesion.