If there was ever a day I’d prefer to be at sea, it is today. I personally think that Black Friday is the most disgusting display of how far our country has fallen. American consumerism and mass delusion at its ultimate pinnacle of mass media hyped lies.
The ignorant masses lined up at 4:00 am outside the 40,000 Wal-Marts ready to storm the beaches and buy Chinese made shit they don’t need, which the corporate mass media tells them they must have, with money they don’t got.
I can’t wait to hear the death and injury counts from the stampedes of the ignorant masses across our great land. It will probably be higher than our Afghanistan casualties for one day. Oh the humanity? All for that awesome deal on a cheap Chinese TV that will break in less than two years.
Retarded analysts soberly appear on CNBC all day declaring a recovery because millions of delusional numbskulls are buying shit on credit again, as if they ever stopped. Your newspaper has 5 news stories and 20,000 ads.
Did Black Friday exist in 1955? 1965? 1975?
No it didn’t. Today was created by mega corporations, backed by corporate media, and sold by corporate advertising giants. It is mass manipulation of the ignorant masses. It degrades humanity and makes us nothing more than robotic consumers. The masses are in a giant pavlovian dog experiment. The media declares unbelievable deals and the masses automatically salivate and line up like lemmings.
If I had more time, I’d tell you what I really think about Black Friday. But, I must go. They are having an awesome sale on Deck 5. I can get anything I want with this cool little card they gave me at the beginning of the trip. I sure hope gold has gone up since I left.
Welshman says:
Kolhs opened at 3 AM on Black Friday in N. California. Hope you are having a nice cruise Quinn family.
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26th November 2010 at 7:06 am
bluestem says:
Gold is down a little this morning, but war will start in Korea soon and it will bounce right back up as GS declares that Gold will soon be $2000.00 per ounce. Hope you had a good trip. John
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26th November 2010 at 9:41 am
MuckAbout says:
The only good thing about Black Friday (and who thought up that stupid name anyhow?) is that they have not figured out how to MAKE YOU go out and spend money on crap you don’t need anyhow.
That’s probably the next goal of corporate marketing – have CONgress pass a law that you must show up at a store no later than 10AM and spend no less than $500 whether you have it or not. If you don’t have it, Benny the Burr will be handing out $100 bills so you can buy-buy-buy…… (throwing up sounds)
I started gagging back in 1985 when foreign countries started loaning us money so we could buy real goods from them. How does that work, exactly? You borrow money from real producers to buy their products.
Presto! Double trouble. The crap you buy is consumed or wears out (if it gets used at all) and you still have the debt! How much more fun can you have than that?
Eventually, you get what we have today. The foreign producers figure out that the debt will never be repaid and stop lending money to the deadbeat USA. The Federal Reserve then starts buying Treasury debt (of which, last week, the Fed held more Treasury debt than China does) which will guarantee a hyper-inflationary depression (stagflation cubed).
All because some asshole thought up Black Friday. It’s really black and I will pass on going anywhere today.
1955, 1965 and 1975 were pretty good years. Considering.
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26th November 2010 at 10:06 am
Kill Bill says:
I dont evah evah nevah evah shop at Walmart.
The beef is just weird looking and tasting.
Is it even from cows?
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26th November 2010 at 3:51 pm
Opinionated Bloviator says:
The Walmart steaks are made from roadkill, the mince is rat. As for Black Friday, Panem et Circences. As went Rome, as will the United States.
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26th November 2010 at 5:48 pm
Week in Review « Craig W. Wright says:
[...] that gets us to “Black Friday”. Here’s a nice note that sums up my feelings about that. Having such a day as this juxtaposed with Thanksgiving seems [...]
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26th November 2010 at 7:06 pm
Oklahoma Dan says:
I was forced into going to wal-mart last night with my Wife. The walk ways were full of chinese plastic junk. Junk, just fucking junk. We heard the store manager regale us with a tale of consumer frenzy. That they had to ask some people to leave because they were pushing around other consumers to get at the junk. Everywhere around me were brain dead morons chattering to themselves and their offspring as to how this junk would change their lives. Earlier in the day I witnessed other morons at a pawn shop selling off good rifles, pistols, gold and tools. So they could take the proceeds to wal-mart and buy junk that the TV told them they have to have. They may miss that rifle, pistol, or gold when there is nothing to eat and nobody wants plasma tv’s and video games.
This display was truly wretched and despicable, I hold out little hope for this nation of fools.
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26th November 2010 at 1:34 pm