You ever think about the fact that A Christmas Carol was doing the same Nightmare Before Christmas shtick almost 200 years earlier A Halloween-y spoopy story for the sake of teaching "the true meaning of Christmas" via the macabre
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(You remember Don Draper's mantra, "This didn't happen"? The Ghost of Christmases Past is the Ghost who tells you "Yes, IT DID HAPPEN" The idea of a total recall pill, of having to live through all the stuff that happened AGAIN and know NONE of it can be changed That's hell)
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I suppose you could say: The future is the ghost that scares the young, the past is the ghost that scares the old, the present* is the ghost that scares us all. *Or maybe I'm the only one disturbed by Ignorance and Want and the implication that they are always just "there".
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The interesting thing to me about the story is that Scrooge's fiancée diagnoses his problem when he was young as thinking *too much* about the future His vice of greed is really born of fear That's why it's just avarice, greed for money, not gluttony -- he's not having any fun
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