Halloween for the Children of the Nations of Mighty Oil
Boiling Frogs Post
October 31, 2011
When a Boogieman and a Ruthless Coward Become One
Here comes another Halloween. It’s that time of year when the children of our nation concoct imaginary ghosts, monsters and boogieman, and take joy in confronting the made-up scary characters and symbols.
It’s a game of pseudo scare. Everyone knows it. The ones too little to understand have it explained by their parents and older siblings.
It’s the annual ritual of the pretend game of pretend scare. It’s the hidden scare pleasure button semi-pushed by a fictional charade of fictional characters: ghosts, monsters and boogiemen.
The generic ghosts are given generic faces. Nameless and anonymous fictional men are boogieman. It is our Halloween.
What if this Halloween was exported to other parts of the world where horror and atrocities are woven into the people’s lives? What if this ritual was adopted by the children of the war-torn nations?
What if these children who’ve been seeing, hearing and experiencing daily horrors and fear were to concoct their own Halloween characters? Would they solely rely on imaginary and made-up monsters and boogiemen, or would they designate real-life boogiemen as their Halloween characters and symbols?
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