Posted on 10/07/2023 5:08:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“We’ve conflated politics and bad mental health until they are indistinguishable.” — Scott Adams.
By some hidden working of unseen forces, legions of ghouls and demons are bursting out of the ground in every other front yard of small-town America. Supposedly hard-up working-class people go all-out constructing Halloween shrines to the totem figures of decay and death, as in some depraved cargo cult competition aimed at hastening our country’s descent into chaos. The end can’t come soon enough, seems to be the message. Something in the zeitgeist is prompting us to do this.
Year to year, these morbid displays of slavering werewolves, hooded skeletons, grinning mummies, pirate corpses, horned devils, giant spiders, flapping crows, and glowing skulls far surpass in scale the once-exuberant displays of Christmas time — as if to say the celebration of horror and terror has way more meaning in America these days than the message of peace-on-earth, angels-on-high, the boundless generosity of Santa Claus, and the humble birth of a loving god. Kind of reminds you of what Mr. Dylan said more than a half-century ago: “…he not busy being born is busy dying.”
This Halloween month, America looks super-busy preparing for the death of something, maybe itself. Surely many now live in terror of the malevolent blob that the US government has become, led by a very paragon of ghouls, “Joe Biden.” This week, the blob declared in a “leak” to Newsweek magazine, that supporters of Donald Trump, the Golden Golem of Greatness, are now officially deemed to be enemies of the state. So, the blob that has lately subsumed the state, explicitly targets Trumpists (the MAGA crowd) for wholesale persecution, cancellation, de-personing, and incarceration. That is, opponents of the blob regime organizing for the coming election will be systematically neutralized and / or liquidated, taken off the game-board one way or another, by any means necessary.
The blobistas would do well to take heed of those Halloween lawn displays. A stupendous, howling rage is building across this land in revolt against the blob’s monumental insults to a once proud and productive people. Soon, that plastic totem army of stock mythological monsters cavorting in the front yards will be superseded by real flesh-and-blood Americans aiming to shred the blob and scatter its quivering tatters to the four winds — as John F. Kennedy once remarked of the CIA in 1962, before it killed him in retaliation.
Coincidentally, a scion of the JFK generation now running for president on an as-yet-to-be-specified independent party seeks to do exactly what his uncle promised to do. As you gaze on this developing battlefield, you will now see two sizable armies marshaling against the unholy hosts of blobbery — Mr. Trump’s MAGAs and Bobby Kennedy’s emerging division representing the old stoic virtues betrayed by vicious blob tyrants. The plausible outcomes on this battlefield are in flux thirteen months before the election. But it looks a little like the blob is outflanked; hence, its growing desperation....
“Anti-Unconstitutional Government” only becomes “Anti-Government” when the when the government acts in violation of the Constitution of the United States which is intended to limit their power.
I have some strings of white Christmas lights on the bushes in my front yard. They’re hooked up to light sensing switches. They are year round but they were put up a couple of Christmases ago. No halloween stuff but I will hand out non sugary treats to kids if they come to the door. That’s about the extent of my Halloween involvement.
[The end can’t come soon enough, seems to be the message]
Some keep trying to accelerate it.
Yesterday I drove through a small town in PA and saw two separate houses with 12-ft skeletons on the front lawns. Elsewhere there was a house I passed with a coffin, an 8-ft Grim Reaper in front...and a garage with little 3-ft skeletons hanging from the windows, as if trying to storm the place. Home Depot sells horse skeletons, rotted pumpkins, life-sized zombie children. Meanwhile the Thanksgiving Day decorations are meager in comparison.
However, I wouldn't elevate the responsibility to a zeitgeist. People are simply more shallow these days, and they have an appetite for weirdness, shock and dazzle because the entertainment industry has fed them little else. GIGO.
There is no spirit left to make a spirit of the times.
I visited the Spirit Halloween store looking for costume bits for my daughters Monster Hunter (urban fantasy by Larry Correia) get up. As I walked around I wondered when I finally found Halloween to be meh, bordering on distasteful and utterly ridiculous. It was like walking around in the linen section of a department store. no interest in what I was seeing at all. not going to ruin it for kiddos, they deserve their fun too, even if it is trunk or treats at school and church.
The Local Loews has Halloween display, right next to the Christmas display.
Santa waves acoss the aisle to a 7 foot werewolf.
Not a turkey or a pilgrim to be seen.
“Supposedly hard-up working-class people go all-out constructing Halloween shrines to the totem figures of decay and death, as in some depraved cargo cult competition aimed at hastening our country’s descent into chaos.”
I don’t disagree at all. I am never not surprised at the filth and degradation this American culture wallows in. Halloween. Gangster rap music. NFL kneelers. BLM. LBQT influence everywhere. Democrat party. Transvestite madness in schools, bathrooms and sports. It seems like it never ends. But it will end one day, we all know that.
For Kevin McCarthy, Dead Man’s Party was prophetic this year.
Methinks this fellow reads too much into Halloween decorations.
Kunstler did a nice job laying out the current U.S. sorry state. The Country lies comatose as the demons get ready to party on their national holiday.
“as in some depraved cargo cult competition aimed at hastening our country’s descent into chaos. The end can’t come soon enough, seems to be the message.”
It is a stacked deck when you have the left wanting to exterminate the species and the faithful praying for the second coming and destruction of man.
My Christmas lights will go up right after Thanksgiving. They’ll spell out FJB in red, white and blue.
Excellent article!The government wants to disarm us after 247 yrs 'cuz they
(s) nully, who has a neighbor with five 12' tall skeletons in his yard...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason
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Home Depot is the place for
Major Spooky junk !
I agree. I’m going out as Colonel Sanders this year. You can thank my wife. She recently remarked she didn’t like my goatee, “It makes you look like Colonel Sanders.” I’m giving her full credit. Lol
LOL! Have fun!
XTC - Poor Skeleton Steps Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOpDKOAR8A
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