Halloween-related questions to ponder

I get that dressing in a costume and going door-to-door to score candy is fun.  Costume parties are lively, as well.  But I have a few questions.  Maybe you can help me.

Why do 99% of Halloween decorations look so cheap, tacky and junky?

Which large corporation decided to convince us we needed to decorate for another holiday, and thus fund their Christmas bonuses?  Maybe the same ones who invented Grandparents' Day and Secretaries' Day?  Oh, and how many "Occupants" have supported their favorite corporations by buying said decorations? 

Why would anyone WANT their house to look like it's haunted and/or deserted?

Similarly, why would people want to "decorate" their homes with things that are ugly?  Don't we spend lots of time, money and energy trying to make our homes look GOOD?

Don't people who drape cotton all over their houses realize that, instead of looking like spiderwebs, it looks like . . . well, they draped cotton all over their houses?  And that it looks like a teenage prank that occurred while they slept (similar to toilet papering the trees)?

When did the world decide that fear (a negative emotion that people spend THOUSANDS of dollars in counselling trying to eliminate) was FUN?  Perhaps that is perpetuated by the drug companies who make tranquillizers, and secretly funded by psychiatrists?

Why would people think that decorations scary enough to give small children nightmares or make them cry are "fun for the kids?"  I don't remember crying too often or having many nightmares as a child, but I do remember that those events were not synonymous with any type of "fun."

Oh!  And when did Halloween become "sexy?!"  Why is it that all girls' costumes larger than size 4T are trampy and suggestive?  And where are the womens' rights people on THAT one?!  Why are they not all over that?!

In my younger, less mature days, I spent many a slumber party watching the Halloween movies, the Friday the 13th movies, the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, etc, because we thought it was fun to be somewhat scared.  But as I got past, say, age 19, it stopped being fun.  I realized that the real world was scary enough (taxes, bills, interest rates on credit cards, crime, war in Iraq or anywhere else, corruption among government officials, people losing jobs, the list goes on).  Why scare myself on PURPOSE?  I just don't have time for that.