Do they all just become stuff-your-face?

They become whatever (that) society lets it become.

Ok, but what meaning do they have for you, for example?

wrong question to wrong person

Quester, you might find this an interesting read. He basically agrees with you... "The Festivals have become abstractions, matters of indifference to modern people."

Rudolf Steiner - The Festivals and Their Meaning
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