The best way to remain clear on what actually matters to the world at large, is to remember that groundhogs day is a thing people take further than and serious species ever would.
There's a rodent in Georga that adults have deemed "General Beauregard Lee". They built it a plantation home, and judging by the video I've seen, there is indeed a flagpole with stars and bars hanging on it.
Yard rats around America have been used to predict the weather, as always around this time of year. Doesn't really matter what these predictions say, but every slack jawed ninny appears to be enjoying themselves.
That's really all you need to know.
Nothing is serious. Everything is imaginary. Knowing this makes the individuals life a whole lot easier, because it means you don't need to take everyone else into account with everything you do.