Winter is Stupid

Ok, I take it back. Winter is fine. Human People are stupid about winter. With all of our modern conveniences, all of our advancements in technology and manufacturing and automation, is there any logical, pragmatic reason at all left to justify me having to be productive in any way, shape, or form in the winter?
I mean seriously. Bees get to sleep all season, and they don't even have thumbs.

Pretty much all of nature knows that winter sucks the most. Animals that don't hibernate relocate to more hospitable climates to resume business as usual without the added burden of battling the elements. But I am expected to put on galoshes and about 20 layers and slog through the dark wet cold whilst trying to maintain a sense of fashion and a cheery disposition. It's not even acceptable to gain a few pounds or let my legs go hairy for some added insulation.

But what I'd like to know is why? Really! Why? Why'd we invent all this amazing stuff to do stuff for us if we're still expected to do stuff? It seems like the more conveniences we get the more inconvenient my life becomes.

At least 50 years ago if there was a ton of snow and ice all over everything you got to stay home and snuggle in for a day. Now we have "weather proof" this and that and tires that can drive in anything and chemicals to melt the roads so you still have to go out in heightened danger and unpleasantness. And since emails and smart phones and satellite, even if you are completely stuck you can still "get a lot of work done."

Now, I'm not opposed to work in principle. I like to be productive as much as the next person. But like the afore mentioned bees and bears, my productivity prefers to pack itself into the 10 months of the year when my bones don't hurt and my brain isn't a fog of seasonal depression. I mean, nobody's knockin' bees for taking a little time off.

But instead of hibernation, I'm subjected to "Daylight Savings Time" another cruel human invention that is SUPPOSED to make winter easier but really just makes everyone crabby. I know there's folks out there who think the "extra" hour in the fall is awesome, but you're not getting an "extra" anything, you're just screwing with your biological clock. Spring or fall, ultimately it's just gonna be "Ouch! My Circadian Rhythm!"

Alls I'm saying is, it seems to me that the point of there even being a winter is that things need to rest a while, in the cold and the dark, so that when spring comes the sap can run and all that stored energy can be poured into the new season of growth and productivity. Nature dictates this. And with a little mechanical structuring and a lot of cultural re-thinking, our modern world could easily allow this.

So I'ma start up the Lazy Winter Brigade! Who's with me? Get on the bus!

I mean when spring comes, and we have energy for causes again.