Why Halloween is depressing
POSTED BY: MAL4PREZ
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 9, 2025 06:32
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If, by chance, we should last another 100 years,
we'll probably be absorbed by the countries we occupy.
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A country's gotta recognize its boundaries. Or lose them.
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It's not the same. No, not the same at all. It's the difference between celebrating chinese new year because you have lots of chinese in the neighborhood, and celebrating it because china is the dominates every aspect of your life.
Dont know if I can explain it to you, jerah. Perhaps, if you could imagine that Australia Day became more widely celebrated in the US than July 4th. You weren't sure what it was all about, but you had the bbq and the sausages and lamingtons and draped yourself in Aussie flags. Every tv show you watched depicted people celebrating it, newspapers talked about it, but nobody mentioned July 4 anymore.
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I am really sorry, Magons.
I had no idea -- none.
Because, you see, coming the other way, all the entertainment, books,
movies, songs, that we get from you are wonderfully Aussie & not US at all.
Lately, I've had occassion to say to friends, "Don't you remember
'The Ugly American?'" "No," they reply, "What is that?"
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A man needs a bit of humility.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
It's not the same. No, not the same at all. It's the difference between celebrating chinese new year because you have lots of chinese in the neighborhood, and celebrating it because china is the dominates every aspect of your life.
Dont know if I can explain it to you, jerah. Perhaps, if you could imagine that Australia Day became more widely celebrated in the US than July 4th. You weren't sure what it was all about, but you had the bbq and the sausages and lamingtons and draped yourself in Aussie flags. Every tv show you watched depicted people celebrating it, newspapers talked about it, but nobody mentioned July 4 anymore.
We actually have this in America. It's called Cinco de Mayo, and it's awesome.
Which tends to be the reason celebrations and traditions cross cultural and national boundaries.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if soon Americans start celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving, and vice-versa for Canadia. :P
It's like me saying I'm having a party, and you saying you hate my party because it's all you've heard about all month. You can basically either join in the fun, or don't play. Like Christmas for atheists. Which starts in July now.
Normally I'm the first in line when it comes to resenting America. But Halloween? Really? Of all the problems that America causes in the rest of the world, of the many times we've exported American culture at GUN POINT, you hate Halloween.
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Quote:Duck Dynasty, Hardcore Pawn, and Lizard Lick Towing ought to be internationally syndicated. The World needs to know what Americans hold dear: quiet hedonism, consumerism, and mind-numbing mass entertainment. The increase in leisure has not resulted, as the ancient sages supposed, in an increase in wisdom and the contemplation of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
Originally posted by G:
Jersey whatever-the-hell-it's-called on euro TV??? Christ almighty! I feel like apologizing to every foreigner and at the same time I feel like screaming, "that's not the US that I live in...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Pawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Lick_Towing
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I dig Halloween. An excuse to indulge in some sugar - and lots of fun costumes. It really doesn't hold any significance for me beyond that - but it's fun and I like it.
Im dressed as Mal right now, as a matter of fact...
"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"
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The increase in leisure has not resulted, as the ancient sages supposed, in an increase in wisdom and the contemplation of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
Eh. While I do think there are beneficial aspects to physical labour, I don't think we should toss out our tractors and technological developments just yet. Rather, I think that the problems you refer to are more of a corrupt Empire bread and circuses type thing like Ancient Rome. Superficial spectacle distracts and sells easier than depth.
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Originally posted by Storymark:
I dig Halloween. An excuse to indulge in some sugar - and lots of fun costumes. It really doesn't hold any significance for me beyond that - but it's fun and I like it.
Im dressed as Mal right now, as a matter of fact...
WE DEMAND PICS.
Oh wait, actually no, that might endanger your personal security. WE DEMAND STICK FIGURE DRAWINGS OF THIS EVENT.
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
We actually have this in America. It's called Cinco de Mayo, and it's awesome.
Which tends to be the reason celebrations and traditions cross cultural and national boundaries.
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if soon Americans start celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving, and vice-versa for Canadia. :P
It's like me saying I'm having a party, and you saying you hate my party because it's all you've heard about all month. You can basically either join in the fun, or don't play. Like Christmas for atheists. Which starts in July now.
Normally I'm the first in line when it comes to resenting America. But Halloween? Really? Of all the problems that America causes in the rest of the world, of the many times we've exported American culture at GUN POINT, you hate Halloween.
Yeah, you don't get it. I see that clearly.
Again, not the same as celebrating other cultures festivals, as I said earlier, but I see you lack the understanding to see the difference.
I'd have no problems celebrating Thanksgiving with some Americna friends who lived around the corner. I have a problem when American cultural norms being adopted because people see them on TV. I don't hate Halloween, I resent it. Just like I resent the 24 hours MacDonalds opening down the road, and the fact that most youngsters now use American spelling because computer spell check defaults to American spelling and a thousand other things that demonstrate American cultural dominance over the world.
And yes, not as bad as having tanks roll down the street, but is that the yard stick for complaints these days. "You're not being shot at, so put up and shut up"
Anyway, enjoy your fun. Just wanted to chip in my ten cents about what I find depressing about Halloween.
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So celebrating Thanksgiving because some Americans you know expect you to is okay, but celebrating Halloween because some of your countrymen saw it on television and thought it looked cool is just uncalled for.
It is apparent that you basically don't like Halloween not because it's American but because it's popular, and populism is the realm of the vulgar audience. Yet ultimately you are objecting to giving candy to children and calling it cultural victimisation.
Meanwhile, I'm going to gobble down a shit-ton of sugar and somehow carry it on my 5'5" 125 pound frame. Then I'm going to watch some friggin' GHOSTBUSTERS, and maybe scare the piss out of some kids with a remote controlled helicopter.
It's going to be pretty good.
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