Ground Zero and Halloween

After the events of September 11, American culture has reacted by re-affirming the solidarity of the nation against foreign threats. If the nation was being forgotten because of an increasingly globalized world, the nation was remembered once again as the events of September 11 unfolded.

Halloween reconsidered

Did you know that even Halloween was reconsidered in the context of the events that took place on 9/11? When the world recoiled at the violence and carnage that took place on that day, people thought that celebrations should necessarily reflect the losses that took place during that sad day.

Many peoples wanted Halloween to be a reflective time, where people could genuinely remember and mourn the loss of loved ones. This is a very robust turn-around for a celebration that was fast becoming engulfed by the smoke and mirrors of corporatism.

What was it like, back then?

If we are to believe what the scholars of Halloween are saying, then Halloween was never about candy and other frivolous commodities. It was about genuine human emotion, something that is being confused for other things in our post-modern days.

Halloween was originally a celebration of life. By remembering and paying respects to those that have passed away, Halloween acted as that small hill where people could congregate and look at the past. By remember and understanding the past, people could confidently expect continuity.

Continuity

Continuity is such a strong thematic for Halloween, even if people don't realize it. Continuity is important because the thematic of death is not a terminal point; what precedes death is also the continuation of the process.

When someone appreciates what death is, that someone would also appreciate the process of life-creation. Life is never unitary. If it were, there would be no need for monuments and tombs. The continuity of life is celebrated by remembering what happens after it. It makes the experience of living richer and more rewarding for those who are intuitive enough to realize it.

Dia de los Muertos

A festival of mourning might sound paradoxical. However, in many cultures outside the white, homogenous borders of the United States, death was something that should be taught and remembered through ritual and ceremony.

In Rio Grande, the Dia de los Muertos was an official time of mourning. It was a time when people were actually interested in revisiting the memories of those what were no longer there with them. It is interesting to note, because when something unbelievably horrible or tragic happens, we often look inward and outward for answers.

In the case of the tragic events of September 11, some Americans have looked outward for answers. Because it seems that Corporate America had forgotten how to completely mourn something so tragic.

Can we turn Halloween around? Can we transform it to something more viable and memorable for everyone? In due time perhaps, people would realize that this celebration is deeper and richer than we realized.

There is still hope to change a superficial celebration to something more worthy of people's time and memory. And when that transformation takes place, we can easily embrace it completely, once again.

Halloween comics, radio and cinema

Incredibly, the font of Halloween stories and inspired his first appearance outside the cinema, but in good old radio. It must be the first story scary and exciting for Halloween, the writer HG Wells. If you remember Tom Cruise War of the Worlds, then you might already know this writer.

HG Wells was the creator of the War of the Worlds. How could the people of one thing clear as a literary piece of fear? A radio production of Orson Welles, the genius ofbehind the effective use of the War of the Worlds on Halloween.

"And today on the news ... aliens!"

You guessed it. Somewhere in the recent thriller / horror / comedy movies in modern Hollywood, the production of Welles' was mentioned. Part of the War of the Worlds were the information programs that have been read between songs.

Imagine hearing from something as gruesome as The War of the Worlds, as real news on a normal day, just Halloween! The premise was perfect.In addition, you guessed it. People were really scared! There was a news that people actually come in a panic (North American listeners.)

In reality, individuals who were in New Jersey mass panic! Imagine the effectiveness of the movement. It 'was amazing, and a wonderful tool in a literary classic. Moreover, this was only in 1930. What followed, a careful use more effort out for Halloween as a central theme in the media available.

Literature

The theme ofHalloween is also able to penetrate into the realm of literature. Only fifteen years after production ghost radio, a writer named Anthony Boucher came with a noir story that plays with reality and the macabre. Boucher was the setting of the story, in California.

Five years later, a series of North American comic book, shocking, frightening the prospect of Halloween as it was originally rendered. A hardened master of a house for orphans finally got his reward as HalloweenZucca. Moreover, the Halloween pumpkins are carved out quite well, and some 'of their front surfaces removed. It 'was a bold move, the existence and acceptance of such materials as soon as a Halloween event in which only a few universal themes followed.

EC Comics was not far behind, this time focusing on things like cutting off body parts. But before the sixties, the American Comics Code regulated the use of such literary devices. It was no longer "acceptable" andso the short time that the code was very active, has been dead these comics.

Today, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman's Sandman series prove to be profitable ventures. However, they are not really supported by the Comics Code ON, ACC awards for comics like Archie.

Free TV and Movies

For one reason or another, free TV is slow to respond to the theme of Halloween. It may have been censoring (the religious right), with television productionsmuch more difficult.

Here are the first shows and movies as inspiration for Halloween in North America:

Whispering Ghosts or (Milton Berle)
O Footlight Serenade (Betty Grable and Victor Mature)
Or Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
o The House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price)
Or Rosemary's Baby (Audrey Hepburn)
O Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
King Kong or
Godzilla O
or Psycho (Hitchcock)
O Night of the Demons

Halloween is too patriotic consumerism?

One of the big questions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in the United States was, we must be aware of our ability, perhaps, continue that there are more things to do for the WTC tragedy not be repeated?

Halloween in 2001 was still happy, but many people were already starting to raise their voice against the mindless consumption that swarmed.

Patriotism

As patriotism is seen in the U.S.? In a large country with a trillioneconomy of the dollar, equivalent to the patriotism of expenditure. If you spend your hard-earned money, keep the economy going. If you spend money, take small and large companies.

Indeed, the whole system is being updated because people let go of their money. If a season like Halloween is suddenly called into question the commercial launch strikes fear. If you do not want to spend what has happened to society?

In this view of the defenderHalloween is ready to denounce the unilateral analysis of man in relation to the consumption activities of people during the Halloween party. You say, well, money is synonymous with the promise of allegiance to the flag of the United States.

If this view is true or not, it makes little sense.

"We do not buy this!"

But people do not have fun. According to Kevin Horrigan in the newspaper Post-Dispatch:

"Take the dough to spend Halloween candy and sends it tothe Red Cross. How about instead of $ 1900000000? "

Such a view was not unusual. After the enemies of Halloween, the holiday devalued everything he touched. According to supporters of the parties, the waiver does not celebrate the ideals of American justice to the original Halloween.

Order that the "terrorists" was, they want to diminish the death of the WTC.

Economic Interest Group

Of course, Halloween is a prime number for interested parties inEvents of economic interest in the United States. Halloween is a sector of retail-based. The lives of individuals leaving the industry for all the shops to go to stores and malls to buy their stuff for Halloween.

Well, if a country is very dependent on a specific area retail sector and suddenly disappears, what will happen? The entire structure begins to crumble. Imagine the entire U.S. economy of a large machine that operates with different main wheel.

Themain gear wheels are the big industries and fields, to produce the amount of money. Now the entire economy depends on these areas. Therefore, during peak hours is the economic collapse, the U.S. government had quickly the industry to be huge to save it from collapse.

Because if you reduce the large companies have all employees and small businesses dependent decrease in large companies fast. This is not selfishness, really. It 's more aboutMaintaining a slow machine, so not completely broken with a fighting animal work.

Today, people turn back to old spending habits of halloween, especially since the memory of 9 / 11 was a bit 'relaxed. We hope that this continues to happen.