BLACK FRIDAY INDEED
Even public radio* is flogging the perennial, yawn-inducing stories about today's shopping frenzy; Check out the brainwashed people fighting over Ninetendo XXI! Listen to the cash register ring! See the merchants smile!
Has no one informed them that today is Buy Nothing Day?
Not to mention Fur Free Friday?
C-S-ing somnambulists....
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*That said, the essay aired today and sounded really good.
Funny isn't it, how the US population has been turned into a giant group of lemming like consuming instruments of advertising?
ReplyDeleteThey get into their shiny metal boxes and drive to giant metal boxes in the attempt to make their boring lives relevant via the purchase of garbage.
This is a bankrupt society.