Archive -> September 31, 2005

'Tis the seasons (to overspend)

Well, it’s that time of the year again when cash registers ring sweetly, as big businesses sweep upon the masses, exploiting them with all sorts of commodities for the “holiday season.” From Halloween to New Year’s Day, the advertising agencies and department stores get rich as the naive public falls prey to their hyped-up campaign.

The Halloween season is big business. It is one of the three top candy-selling seasons of the year. The manufacturers of Halloween greeting cards, costumes and decorations take their fill of the large profits reaped by the public’s desire for “fun and folly,” and the beginning of the Thanksgiving – Christmas – New Year’s Eve swing.

Excerpted from Halloween, The Evil One’s Sabbat by Dr. Malachi Z. York