At one point, vampires where the thing.

Everyone wanted to be a vampire, bitten by one, or at least watch a vampire movie.  Anne Rice and, to a lesser extent, Dracula where the social darlings.
This was somewhere in the 1980s.  HIV and Aids became a very real and misunderstood fear.    It was thought to be transferred through the blood and sex.    It’s natural that we latched on to vampires.   It provided substance to a fear.

When the economy was (is?  Is this under debate?),  shot to hell-sinky and back.   People lost houses, cars, money, jobs, and self-respect.    What rose from the desolate landscape?   The Walking Dead – literally.  Bodies without minds continually searching for substance.   They where one massive, undying, and uncaring force, which, in a way, symbolized the out of work Americans.   Again, just like the vamps, society found a way to combat the movable mountain of flesh and things got better.

Things got to be — so — better that we all became superheroes.
Everyone is welcome, from the charismatic Iron Man to the soloist Dr. Strange.  You could be huge like the Hulk or teenie tiny like the Ant Man.   You could be rich or poor.  Young or old.   You didn’t even need to have a tragic back story.    Mutants are just born that way.   Super heroes don’t have to fully get along as long as they pull together when the going gets tough – like Ultron and possibly Thanos.

Super heroes are starting to come to an end.    It’ll be a long end if Disney has anything to say about it.  But, eventually, it’ll come to an end.

What’s next?
That’s the billion dollar marketing and movie dollar question.

I peer into my crystal ball…  Did you know that crystal balls were really quartz?   That whole crystal thing is just for show and is really just glass…

Anyways, I’d guess ghosts and spirits.

I suppose there’s lots of reasons why, but the main one is that people feel that they are being ignored.   Donald Trump is president.  He was elected in.   Okay, fine.  There’s quite a backlash from people who don’t want him there.   This makes the people who voted for him seem invisible.   Likewise, since Trump is in office and consistently dominating the news, the people who are against Trump feel like they’re invisible.

The people who live in “fly over country” are continually belittled.   All of the focus is on California, who wants to leave the union and/or divide between the haves and have-nots, and New York.  Why New York?  Because New York will never and not be ignored.

If the news I to be believed, there is a caravan of people in Mexico seeking their way into the United States.  Trump, who doesn’t want them to come in, is being ignored by California who has stated that they will be welcome.  Everyone else is fairly powerless one way or the other.

Again… everyone is being ignored.   We’re all ghosts… just echoes of what has been and what may have been.  Whatever we say, think, or feel isn’t acknowledged.

That and coupled by the big 20 that’s coming up in less than two years.  2020 – that is.   When we approach a calendar year that ends in zero, there’s a tendency to start looking for omens.  Starting off this year with a Super Blood Moon is one heck of an omen.  Sometimes on Drudge, I see snip-its about exorcisms and how the pope allegedly said hell doesn’t exist.

Doesn’t that seem to indicate Disney is going to remake Mickey’s Very Scary Halloween… or the equivalent.     Hoping it’s not Disney, but I know who has the money.

At least we’re getting a Deadpool 2 out of it, so it’s not all bad, right?  =)

Mark my words.  Ghosts, spirits, and things that go bump in the night are the coming main attraction for the next five-ish years or so.

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