[Vision2020] Fwd: Mark Morford: Black Friday Die Die Die

[cynthia nichols]

Interesting reading. The first link in the article (the word, "this)  
is from KTVB at a Boise Mall.

cynthia

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> ===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata =====
> SFGate.com - Wednesday, November 28, 2007
> Black Friday Die Die Die
> America's most obscene shopping day meets its doom in an oily  
> nightmare hell. All true!
> By Mark Morford
>
> Is this why they hate us? Why we hate ourselves? Is this why we seem  
> to have no real idea who the hell we are anymore, or what it means  
> to have a humane and thoughtful national identity, and therefore we  
> happily scratch and claw and fight our way into giant fluorescent- 
> lit hellpits for a chance at a $29 DVD player and some crappy plasma  
> TVs and a pallet of heavily discounted spatulas?
>
> More broadly: Is this why we're suffering such a general feeling of  
> ennui and disgust and apathy in the culture right now, the nagging  
> feeling that we have no center and God has abandoned us and we  
> therefore simply cannot consume enough goods and technology to try  
> and fill the void? The answer seems rather obvious.
>
> I don't even know what Kohl's is. I'm guessing some sort of mass- 
> crap superstore, like Best Buy or Target or T.J. Maxx or a weird  
> amalgam of all of those and it doesn't really matter because last  
> Friday they opened at 4 a.m. for the mad rush of Black Friday  
> shoppers, because if there's one thing you want to do when your body  
> is groggy and sleep tugs at your heart and your dreams have turned  
> vacant and sad, it's grope cheap waffle makers before sunrise.
>
> Wal-Mart opened at 5. Target opened at 6. Across America, gluttony  
> ruled. There were stores that had nothing whatsoever to do with  
> gifting or holiday largess, stores with names like Cabinetry and  
> More or Rug Depot that nevertheless opened at 6 or 7 a.m. on that  
> now-ominous, insane, fateful day, if for no other reason than to  
> capitalize on the fact that there were so many franctic zombified  
> credit-carded bodies swarming about and it would be foolish not to  
> take advantage. ...
>
> (click here to read the rest)
>
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