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Comes the Dancing Skeleton
Kunstler.com ^ | 6 Oct, 2023 | James Howard Kunstler

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 Soon, that plastic totem army of stock mythological monsters cavorting in the front yards will be superseded by real flesh-and-blood Americans aiming to shred the blob and scatter its quivering tatters to the four winds — as John F. Kennedy once remarked of the CIA in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....


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To: Night Hides Not; dfwgator
[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]








21 posted on 10/07/2023 7:57:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Buttons12

I’m seeing a lot of that giant skeleton this year. Seems to be very popular. I wonder what the Chinese factory workers are thinking when they make them.


22 posted on 10/07/2023 8:09:08 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: MtnClimber

Once again, I like to return Halloween to its origins as part of the three day holiday of Allhallowtide. I am on the side that disagrees with any connection to the pagan holiday of Samhain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allhallowtide

Basically, Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.

On All Hallows’ Eve (Halloween), some believe that the veil between the material world and the afterlife thinned. In order to prevent recognition by a soul, “people would don masks or costumes to disguise their identities”. Especially important for young children, as souls are attracted to them as they are full of life.

In the southwestern US, especially, Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos), tends to be celebrated as much or more than Halloween.


23 posted on 10/07/2023 8:35:14 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: SaveFerris

BFL


24 posted on 10/07/2023 8:36:40 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber
This display must have been the inspiration for this article
25 posted on 10/07/2023 9:45:18 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Wow, that is a lot of work!


26 posted on 10/07/2023 9:46:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: jocon307

“Methinks this fellow reads too much into Halloween decorations.”

Every year there’s a cadre wailing that they’re indicative of the imminent end of the world. It may be ending soon, but Halloween decorations have nothing to do with it. They were just as popular (if not as costly/elaborate) when I was a kid 70 years ago.


27 posted on 10/07/2023 9:49:42 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: MtnClimber

Too much. But I thought it went nicely with the article. 😋


28 posted on 10/07/2023 9:52:41 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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29 posted on 10/07/2023 9:57:19 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Noumenon

I hope that is a joke.


30 posted on 10/07/2023 10:05:18 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Robert DeLong

That is very creative and it seems to be just about fun.


31 posted on 10/07/2023 10:24:14 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Why do you hope that’s a joke? I have neighbors who do the same thing. Do you enjoy the refreshing taste of Biden’s shoe polish?


32 posted on 10/07/2023 11:30:14 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Noumenon

Don’t use Jesus to expose children to ugly political language, don’t make Christmas ugly and profane.


33 posted on 10/07/2023 11:48:23 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Noumenon

Pray tell, would those be yard or roof lights?


34 posted on 10/07/2023 1:01:26 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Buttons12
 
 
I remember when Halloween used to be just a time of fun for kids, have noticed how it has progressively turned more darker, serious, more adult-oriented. I imagine marketing to increase customer base has much to do with it, but there's signs of culture rot in the mix. Noticed too that people who gravitate towards celebrating gruesomeness and horror during Halloween are the queers. They tend to really go overboard with the macabre stuff. Definite signs that dark things are flying around inside their skulls.
 
 

35 posted on 10/07/2023 1:03:36 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

I might have been one of those guys who TP’d your house man.

Just sayin


36 posted on 10/07/2023 1:09:56 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: LastDayz

They’ll be hanging off the roofline of the front porch.


37 posted on 10/07/2023 7:41:37 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ansel12

I’ll do as I please. You’re the one with... issues.


38 posted on 10/07/2023 7:43:25 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Noumenon

No wonder our culture has fallen apart with Christianity dying out in America, with adults like you using Christmas to display stuff like that to kids.

I never said you have issues but it appears you do.


39 posted on 10/07/2023 7:56:59 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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