Link - Scrooge And His Black Friday
The spirit of Christmas Scrooge can no longer be thought of as just the hermit at the end of the street whom we never see. The Scrooge spirit resides in all of those who walked over and on top of the dying man in Walmart. The spirit of Scrooge exists in all of those who have to serenade their kids and others with 10 different high-dollar gifts, each, like a quarterly quota, and will pepper spray fellow hunters to get it. This is superficiality in the guise of “giving,” with all kinds of negative short and long-term consequences. The extreme consumerist mindset is promoted by retailers in both overt and subtle ways — and the consumers, who, out one side of their mouth will scream about the greed of corporations, then reward them with their own greed on Black Friday. And here’s a not-so-subtle warning: isn’t it ALARMING one of our economy’s strongholds is the reliance on Black Friday’s extreme results? A true mockery of Christmas. Now, I know the actual reported incidents were few, and the media loves to celebrate tragedy, but wasn’t just ONE of those incidents too many? I’m not knocking those who simply went shopping for a good deal, and had a decent mindset. I’m talking about the extreme consumerist zealots who participated in these kinds of frenzies, and likely do every year.
Quite the article.
