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30 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
I bet this is one of those things where a series of obvious improvements were made to a beloved tradition that ended up ruining it.
Beginning: Each household prepares a unique treat for the kids in the community to come collect in their homemade costumes.
Middle: Just buy mass produced candy because that's cheaper and it's what kids want more. And just buy a cheap mass produced costume of something from pop culture because that's more exciting to kids.
End: Buy exactly the candy you want and eat it at home wearing whatever you feel like.
End: Buy exactly the candy you want and eat it at home wearing whatever you feel like.
Every day can be Halloween!
Also, I find it to be an interesting sociological observation that Halloween is the closest thing to a universally socially approved event for the neighborhood to engage in, now. Not Christmas, not Easter, not even the 4th of July, really. Seems like the postmodernists have done such a bang up job of dismantling every truth claim that the only common social touchpoint is one that is explicitly make-believe.
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Yeah, none of those other holidays are as big of neighborhood events.
Easter and 4th of July are reasonably big community events around us, but not where the whole neighborhood is going house to house.
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It's kinda fascinating too that "fandom" is increasingly the thing that people unite around. Since we can't unite around shared truth, we unite around something we all agree to be false!
I feel like @kepford would be interested in these thoughts, haha
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We can unite around the shared truth that K-Pop Demon Hunters slaps
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Surprisingly few kpop demon hunter outfits at the last costume events my kids attended. I think Elsa costumes lasted longer
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