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NoBimbosAllowed -> RE: What has happened to horror and holloween? (10/9/2013 11:49:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: littlewonder
imo, the reason you don't see scarey costumes anymore is because in our society today we are surrounded by gruesomeness every single moment of our day. Turn on the tv and you see it. We have neighborhoods where it gets worse and worse everyday. Crime and violence are just a part of our everyday vernacular now. Halloween now is more of a time to forget the violence of our lives. We're tired of it. So we use Halloween as simply a time to get all dressed up as our dreams and fantasies and just have fun.
a very good point, but...
with the Irish, back in the days when people believed in things that came from pre Christian belief structure (such as The Morrigu, pagan goddess of War, perched in her Raven Form on the shoulder of the bronze statue of the national hero of Ireland, Cu Chullain, the Hound of the Forge, who is also the grandson of the most important pre-Christian god in Irish culture... and this statue is featured in a place of pride in a building that represented the New Republic, free of Rule Britannia, btw),
The Dead coming back was a right which they'd earned, frankly. They were scary because piece-of-shit living people had wronged them in Life and never made amends, or had shown utter lack of respect after their death. The Dead were free to punish the living and in fact many of the non-human individuals in the Irish Tableau were free to join in, and things that had never been beholden to a Human shape could be QUITE horrendous indeed (unlike wank-ass snot bubbles in Blair Witch and paw prints in flour in paranormal Activity which only the most playstation-addicted neurologically atrophied game-teats would find 'scary').
The 'costume' thing came from a sense of self-preservation and a human need to avoid punishment: you dressed yourself as the Dead, and as the non human creatures who accompanies the Dead, you created a scary affect for yourself to blend in with Those Who Came Back, so they'd ignore you and move on.
THAT'S the mask aspect.
You had the EXPENSIVE food ready for them to enjoy as a sign of Respect. To make amends or merely acknowledge what they'd done for your Clannadhe beforehand, and recognize that you'd be dealing with the Dead after you shuffled off the mortal coil.
There you have the Treats.
What housewives, smug about 'hiding buttons' but likely to have no achievements outside from posting snarkies won't understand, what such intellectual 'mutton-done -up-as-lamb - addicted to TV soaps - dismissive of such histories because they have 8 million tweets to reply to, means nothing, but that's a lot of why the costumes are no longer scary. Like these housewives with the snarkie button so hot from the pressing likely have fetish outfits not much higher on the scale than what could be bought at K Mart.
Belief in a non Abrahamic-based afterlife with rules that Mormons and Evangelists have no say in, the same folk that tend to like images of jesus with blonde hair and blue eyes, well, it does not sit well with them. The most UNscary version of the Devil himself is Christian, and dare I say, post Benjamin Franklin Christian.
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