The irony is Capitalism is killing Halloween in America. Corpo media has everyone so afraid of their neighbors that trick or treating is dying. Most adults don’t bother doing anything because it’s all so expensive and even if they stay home there are no trick or treaters anymore. Combine that with the creeping horror that is the Christmas season, with stores starting to stock their plastic Christmas crap in fucking August, and an concentrated effort to kill the holiday by American evengelicals. Halloween just isn’t what it used to be.

October was literally the best time of life for me as a kid. Carving jack o lanterns to bond with my dad, going on my town’s haunted hayride and being a little less scared of the haunted house every year, scaring each other in front of bonfires, watching your favorite cartoons’ spooky special, dressing up and feeling cool and adventurous with your friends while you get a ton of free candy, etc. etc.

Now it’s more a time to watch horror movies, look at the decorations everywhere, and dress up and feel cool with your friends while you get a bunch of free alcohol. Top tier holiday, you just gotta understand the vibes and nostalgia and sense of community. Also rewatching Over the Garden Wall this week

In America Halloween is a communal holiday that all people takes party in. In Europe Halloween is literally just marketing ghouls pushing shitty plastic decorations and overpriced candy on children. It is even displacing similar indigenous traditions that doesn’t get amplified through the American cultural slop we consume thanks to Yankee cultural hegemony.

Is there a Scrooge McDuck of Halloween? Because I think we found a prime candidate.