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Halloween Is Manufactured Fear. Mexico's Day of the Dead Is All Too Real.
Americans have a strange fascination with artificial fear. The Halloween industry is worth around $8 billion, an annual capitalistic ritual of predictable costumes and tacky decorations—fake limbs hanging from doorknobs, Styrofoam tombstones neatly arranged on front lawns, robotic spiders crawling up and down suburban walls. It’s an awful lot of effort to manufacture adrenaline! There’s even a growing market for extreme experiences that replicate not only torture but also kidnapping and...
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I enjoyed this..Good one.