As an Irish person it kind of serves them right? Halloween is supposed to be this special, singular, liminal night when the barriers between the mundane and the supernatural are weakest, when dinner is laid out for the spirits of those that died as if you can speak to them there and then. Then the next day it’s gone, and new year starts, cold and bleak at first then warming in temperature and tones.
Turning it into a month+ of commercialised spooky/sexy stuff just makes it less unique, less Halloween in every way.
I propose that a new costume night be created, in summer so people can actually wear them, and return Halloween to the darkness it belongs to.
Could not agree with this more. Capitalist society takes literally every event with some meaning and sincerity and just turns it into consumerist bullshit stuffed full of pop-culture.
As an Irish person it kind of serves them right? Halloween is supposed to be this special, singular, liminal night when the barriers between the mundane and the supernatural are weakest, when dinner is laid out for the spirits of those that died as if you can speak to them there and then. Then the next day it’s gone, and new year starts, cold and bleak at first then warming in temperature and tones.
Turning it into a month+ of commercialised spooky/sexy stuff just makes it less unique, less Halloween in every way.
I propose that a new costume night be created, in summer so people can actually wear them, and return Halloween to the darkness it belongs to.
Could not agree with this more. Capitalist society takes literally every event with some meaning and sincerity and just turns it into consumerist bullshit stuffed full of pop-culture.
All religious and cultural holidays are just co-opted versions of some previous culture.
In this case “pagan”->“Christian”->“Corporate Capitalism”
It sucks but that shit is forever in the past.