Social Distancing, Stranger Danger, and The Campaign To Save Halloween
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Last week, after months of sadness and worry, I got a promotional email from the Spirit Halloween store and instantly I felt glad to be alive. As in, I literally thought, verbatim, “I’m glad I am alive.” This week on Twitter there’s been a lot of talk about what Halloween will look like this year. Many people worry there will be no Halloween at all, which is of course ridiculous. For all its long history, Halloween has been under threat (in the 17th century, it was outlawed). Halloween has been threatened by Puritanism, by urbanism, by deforestation, by commercialization, by overprotective parents and Satanic panic and poisoned candy hoaxes, by pranks that go too far and pranks that don’t go far enough. Fear that there may be no Halloween is a Halloween tradition itself.
Social Distancing, Stranger Danger, and The Campaign To Save Halloween
Social Distancing, Stranger Danger, and The…
Social Distancing, Stranger Danger, and The Campaign To Save Halloween
Last week, after months of sadness and worry, I got a promotional email from the Spirit Halloween store and instantly I felt glad to be alive. As in, I literally thought, verbatim, “I’m glad I am alive.” This week on Twitter there’s been a lot of talk about what Halloween will look like this year. Many people worry there will be no Halloween at all, which is of course ridiculous. For all its long history, Halloween has been under threat (in the 17th century, it was outlawed). Halloween has been threatened by Puritanism, by urbanism, by deforestation, by commercialization, by overprotective parents and Satanic panic and poisoned candy hoaxes, by pranks that go too far and pranks that don’t go far enough. Fear that there may be no Halloween is a Halloween tradition itself.