I am seriously freaked out about the behavior on Black Friday. People were shot, there was mass crushings, some lady sprayed a crowd with pepper spray, people grabbed and wrestled for things and all of this happened after our national day of thanks.
When a society decideds that competitive shopping is thier sport we have a problem. What is wrong with us that we want so many things? Why do we have this gigantic hole that we have to fill up with more and more things.
Is spraying someone with pepper spray really necessary for video games? I can't imagine it.
Years ago I went to Target the day after Christmas with my daughter and we saw a shirt or something in a bin that she really liked. I picked it up at the same time some grandmother had it in her grips. She pulled it towards her and at that very moment I was disgusted with people and their need for things. It was just a shirt. It wasn't something of real value - something that would even last and yet this woman wanted it so bad she wanted to grab it out of my hands. Needless to say I let her have it and walked hand in hand with my daughter out of the store, not buying anything.
There is nothing I want from the material world that will have be shoving and pushing to get it. Nothing. And I refuse to show that kind of behavior to my child.
I just feel that there is an emptiness to it all. That getting and buying is what the game is all about. But I also know that people are unhappy. They are unhappy with what they have. Who they have. Where they work. What they do. They can't seem to buy anything to make them less unhappy. Nothing is working. They drink. They take prescription medication. They shop. And yet they are still not happy.
What is wrong with us? Where are we as a people that our quintessential moments in life are filled with shopping and grabbing things? I am sad about it in a way that doesn't probably make sense. It makes my heart hurt in a huge way. We are missing the point of why we are here. I am starting to think that those bleak sci fri books that show the future as devoid of trees and health are where we are headed. I don't like it... not one bit.
