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 Soon, that plastic totem army of stock mythological monsters cavorting in the front yards will be superseded by real flesh-and-blood Americans aiming to shred the blob and scatter its quivering tatters to the four winds — as John F. Kennedy once remarked of the CIA in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....
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.
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.
BFL
Wow, that is a lot of work!
“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.
Too much. But I thought it went nicely with the article. 😋
I hope that is a joke.
That is very creative and it seems to be just about fun.
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?
Don’t use Jesus to expose children to ugly political language, don’t make Christmas ugly and profane.
Pray tell, would those be yard or roof lights?
I might have been one of those guys who TP’d your house man.
Just sayin
They’ll be hanging off the roofline of the front porch.
I’ll do as I please. You’re the one with... issues.
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.
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