(11-01-2016, 03:37 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(11-01-2016, 02:26 PM)taramarie Wrote: I like the sound of the party much more. Get together with the community and spend more time with them than just mooching for sweets. Actually spending time with parents and the kids together and getting to know each other more. Nice. I see nothing wrong there.
But it's wiping out a tradition that goes back over 100 years. And it's exclusionary. Only the parents with kids are part of the tribe. Tribes like childless young, empty nesters, and others, are excluded. We sit with bowls of candy and almost no one knocks on the door. The pumpkin glows for no one. The more traditional way knit together the entire community in a way that this atomized, tribal methodology cannot.
I agree. Additionally, Halloween has it's roots in an old NW European tradition of leaving out offerings of food to appease the spirits of the dead, and it's sad seeing those ancient traditions linking us to the deep past disappear.
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