Black Friday

The book A Reasonable Life was very interesting and one part that I would like to reflect on is about “Sunday shopping” which I wanted to correlate to Black Friday. That one day a year we as Americans practically celebrate capital and consumerism, when we’re on a turkey high of tryptophan and wake in the wee hours of the morning to shop and shove all morning long. I myself woke at 3pm to stand in line at 5pm to purchase a PS3 Christmas bundle that came with two games. But I refused the temptation to shop and shove my way inside a big chain store like Wal-Mart and Target were people have actually died from being trampled to death so others can save and shop and save and shop.
I think we’re junkies for the bargain, we push physical limits to be able to say we made the best purchase possible. The disturbing part is that this happens at a national level, that people all over America shop and shop and shop on this one day, which makes a couple of other people pretty darn rich. It’s almost sickening to think that humans turn on humans to get the last really good deal, or people stomp over others to snag a bargain, but when something like 9/11 happens people donated blood beyond capacity and had to be turned away. Its not surprising that the theory of humanity has been pondered for centuries and has stumped the most intellectual of people.