To me, it just feels like a world full of strangers constantly sending my brain signals of danger.
It feels like ugly colors, ugly masks, ugly behavior by people hiding behind ugly masks. And adults acting childish (rather than childlike, which can be wonderful), spending hundreds of dollars each year on front-yard dioramas depicting torture and mass murder. Halloween feels like a culture that no longer celebrates the transcendent and instead settles for cheap thrills from "sexy nurses" and murder houses.
My wife used to take the kids out trick-or-treating while I stayed home with the lights out and pretended to not be home.
And at office parties and the like? How is one even supposed to talk to Harvey from Accounting when he's dressed like a down-on-his-luck Captain Picard?
I've always played along because - fun! But I don't find it fun.
(P.S. - I'm not saying that Halloween should be banned or that you're a bad person if you enjoy Halloween. It just abrades my nerves.)
It feels like ugly colors, ugly masks, ugly behavior by people hiding behind ugly masks. And adults acting childish (rather than childlike, which can be wonderful), spending hundreds of dollars each year on front-yard dioramas depicting torture and mass murder. Halloween feels like a culture that no longer celebrates the transcendent and instead settles for cheap thrills from "sexy nurses" and murder houses.
My wife used to take the kids out trick-or-treating while I stayed home with the lights out and pretended to not be home.
And at office parties and the like? How is one even supposed to talk to Harvey from Accounting when he's dressed like a down-on-his-luck Captain Picard?
I've always played along because - fun! But I don't find it fun.
(P.S. - I'm not saying that Halloween should be banned or that you're a bad person if you enjoy Halloween. It just abrades my nerves.)