Rudolph’s Shiny New Year is a reminder that New Year's is an arbitrary creation

The New York Times

The 1976 Rankin-Bass stop-motion movie follow-up to the widely popular Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer "highlighted something that 2021 will surely come to prove: the ways we mark time are arbitrary, ultimately a fantasy in which our memory of a year often only accounts for the extremes of our experience: the best and worst things that happened to us," says Maya Phillips. "Time is unwieldy and untameable, so much larger than the ways we define it, and it continues whether or not we mark its passage."