Dear Humans,

If you step back and look at the things humans do, you might think they’re a little weird. In a few days you might put on a cape, slather fake blood on your chin, stuff pointy, plastic teeth in your mouth, ring your neighbors’ doorbells, and threaten them to give you candy. And they will hand it over with a smile on their face!

That seems pretty weird, doesn’t it?

But we’ve been doing it for so long that we think it’s normal. It’s tradition now. And our job as thinking people in the world is to ask why we do the things we do. How did things become the way they are? Not because we want to stop doing these strange things–candy’s great, after all–but to better understand how human beings make sense of this strange world we live in.

Sincerely,

Mr. Curt