Story Published:
Nov 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Nov 29, 2011 at 3:10 PM CDT
Black Friday: The definition in the dictionary next to the word GREED. Just to make certain that everyone is familiar with the word GREED, here's the definition: Excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness. I've got my own definition: the lust of material things. GREED was on full display all over the country on Black Friday. In some places that lust lead to violence. It always has. In past years we have all read about violence at various stores--some miner, other major. We've heard about in-store assaults, gunfire in parking lots, the use of pepper spray in a WalMart and the trampling of people during a stampede to enter a WalMart a few years ago.
People line up--some, days in advance--on the sidewalks in front of big box stores. They pitch tents, don't bathe for several days, and take care of bodily function, some in places who knows where. But, they occupy private property and they usually are there for only a few days as opposed to the anarchists who occupy public lands. That is except those in New York City who took over a private park. But the big difference is that the big box people aren't advocating the overthrow of the United States States of America.
The people camping out in front of big box stores are the future parents of our country. Is this what we want? In future years their progeny will do the same things and a trend will have been established. Black Firday will live on through generations as the worship of stuff will be propagated.
Now, for the first time stores are opening as early as 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. What has happened to that venerable holiday where love of family prevails? Yet, how can you blame stores? They are so desparate for profits at year's end that Black Friday and the Christmas season is all important. I would bet that the biggest portion of Christmas season sales is via credit cards and so unsecured debt climbs.
Black Friday is a black cloud over America.
