Latinos make up slightly more than half the audience for horror films, including ‘Terrifier 3’. No doubt their halloween decoration is similarly tasteful. Just another instance of the based, trad Hispanic populace not quite behaving as the GOPe consultant class promised they would.
We can expect more gauche pop culture as the Latino population expands. On the upside, we can expect too much more gratuitous sexualization of women, as any viewer of telenovelas, Spanish sportscasts, or indeed even of LatAm nightly news can attest.
idk. I’m sure there have been dissertations written on this topic - albeit almost certainly from a lefty perspective - but it’s always been present in Mesoindian culture. Even the Catholic Church in Latin America melded a whole variety of quasi-creepy customs and imagery into its flavor of the faith in order to convert and to appeal to the natives.
I actually think the root of this kind of thing is 2 things apart from “let people enjoy things” 1.Mass desensitization (even for children) 2. An increasingly anti social populace. The first point is self explanatory, but I think the gory decorations reflect the kind of violence many people today wish they could enact but don’t for fear of the social or legal consequences (see the term “normie sadism” and your earlier IQ supplement on killdozer idolization). Instead of actually “going postal” depictions of gruesome violence provides a release valve for those homicidal tendencies. It’s similar to the role that violent video games play (not going Jack Thompson here but still), but playing a game is a relatively private matter, it probably ADDS to the catharsis that other people can see the horror show in the case of decor. Halloween is just a convenient excuse to do it, put out a clay corpse on your lawn in April and someone might call the police, or at minimum confront you about it.
The desensitization is part of the process and is alluded to here. The anti-social populace is part of the WHY people put these things up. But society allows for it as well. People could put up this crap and their neighbors could still police them to not do so. but that doesn't happen. We're all supposed to "enjoy things" without interference
This reminds me of that King of the Hill episode where Bill dresses up as Santa, then the woman who initially took a liking to him thinks he's a weirdo after seeing that he's still doing it after Christmas
Latinos make up slightly more than half the audience for horror films, including ‘Terrifier 3’. No doubt their halloween decoration is similarly tasteful. Just another instance of the based, trad Hispanic populace not quite behaving as the GOPe consultant class promised they would.
We can expect more gauche pop culture as the Latino population expands. On the upside, we can expect too much more gratuitous sexualization of women, as any viewer of telenovelas, Spanish sportscasts, or indeed even of LatAm nightly news can attest.
What is behind latinx fixation with gore horror occult etc?
idk. I’m sure there have been dissertations written on this topic - albeit almost certainly from a lefty perspective - but it’s always been present in Mesoindian culture. Even the Catholic Church in Latin America melded a whole variety of quasi-creepy customs and imagery into its flavor of the faith in order to convert and to appeal to the natives.
I actually think the root of this kind of thing is 2 things apart from “let people enjoy things” 1.Mass desensitization (even for children) 2. An increasingly anti social populace. The first point is self explanatory, but I think the gory decorations reflect the kind of violence many people today wish they could enact but don’t for fear of the social or legal consequences (see the term “normie sadism” and your earlier IQ supplement on killdozer idolization). Instead of actually “going postal” depictions of gruesome violence provides a release valve for those homicidal tendencies. It’s similar to the role that violent video games play (not going Jack Thompson here but still), but playing a game is a relatively private matter, it probably ADDS to the catharsis that other people can see the horror show in the case of decor. Halloween is just a convenient excuse to do it, put out a clay corpse on your lawn in April and someone might call the police, or at minimum confront you about it.
The desensitization is part of the process and is alluded to here. The anti-social populace is part of the WHY people put these things up. But society allows for it as well. People could put up this crap and their neighbors could still police them to not do so. but that doesn't happen. We're all supposed to "enjoy things" without interference
This reminds me of that King of the Hill episode where Bill dresses up as Santa, then the woman who initially took a liking to him thinks he's a weirdo after seeing that he's still doing it after Christmas