In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.