In this edition of ‘Brooding,’ Kathryn Jezer-Morton reflects that Halloween isn’t as scary now as it was during her childhood. Nowadays, it’s more of an aesthetic experience than a creepy one.
, one of the neighborhood parents took a bunch of us trick-or-treating in the back of his pickup truck. There were about five of us, thrilled to be riding around in the open truck bed after dark. Our route took us past a cemetery that dated back to the Revolutionary War, sitting down a slope away from the road, surrounded by an old stone wall and hemmed in by thick woods. As we approached the cemetery, the dad behind the wheel killed the engine. We heard some revs and cranks, then nothing.
When my kids return to the parks they loved as toddlers, they are always amazed at how small everything is. “This slide used to bechildren for sport is not as socially acceptable as it once was. The thought of parents banding together to scare their children on Halloween evokes, more than anything else, the casual and oblivious cruelty of mid-century American life.
When we cross the threshold into the holiday season, we enter a culturally significant period of memory-making. One way that Byung-Chul Han describes enchantment is when the past and the present momentarily collide, providing us a brief, overwhelming experience of being beyond time itself — “two separate moments in time combining into one fragrant crystal of time. The torturous contingency of time is thereby overcome, and this produces happiness.
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