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Would society in the US return to normal?

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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Just suppose the big giveaway occurred, do you think society would resemble anything like before the night of October 31?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

In the movie, Cochran's plan succeeded. Society was forever changed. The bad guy won. Makes a refreshing change, I think.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

But how do you think society was changed besides the deaths of the children? People would have more children.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Not if the parents were killed by the poisonous snakes that crawled out of their dead children's heads, as what happened to that family. Or had fatal heart attacks at the shock.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Well that is true. But what about those that survived though, such as those with very small children or infants not old enough to know about trick or treating and wearing masks? Those beyond the mask-wearing years, those who had children who died but got out of harm's way would have more children, etc, they would have children, more children. I mean people would not be locked in a room like the Kupher's were. But I'm sure life would be different for those who weren't killed. I just wonder what the aftermath would look like for them.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Who knows? We can only speculate.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21703) 4 years ago

These are damn good questions.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

They are. I mean if the big giveaway occurred and Cochran had lived, do you think he'd end up taking over the world and every town becoming like Santa Mira?

[–] Aylmer (616) 5 months ago

The world was a different place in 1982 from today, so it's hard to make a backward projection. Today after a mass casualty event like that, we could expect the government to clamp down hard and create some sort of censorship board to monitor mask production and media (I am sure both would be blamed). There would be all kinds of politicizing over whether The Left or The Right was responsible. A lot of people would blame Television and give it up entirely preferring to read books instead for several years. I think the recent example of the Hezbollah Pager attacks would be a good indication of how people would react to TV's melting millions of kids' faces and turning them into bugs and snakes; households would look very suspiciously at a common technology which they never had scrutinized before.

It'd also kinda kill the idea of wearing masks on Halloween, if not irreversibly damage the spirit of the holiday entirely for at least 20 years. Halloween would instead become some kind of mass-mourning day similar to 9-11 but gradually lose its significance to average people (especially children who wouldn't remember the tragedy) over the decades.

Demographically, it'd blow a giant hole in the population age 5-14 in the United States and cause the pyramid to look like an hour glass. It'd be a reverse-Baby Boom if you will, which would be felt economically about 20 years afterward when the workdforce would be missing a lot of talent. The government would get around this by mass-important hundreds of thousands, if not millions of immigrants at levels not seen until today, which would mean the culture of the United States would change.