You can find the comment all over the Internet these days: the irony of people being thankful for what they have followed by a day of trampling other people to get crap they don’t need. Well, what’s wrong with that? Can’t people be thankful for the ability to trample other people to get crap they don’t need? Black Friday, Shop Local Saturday, Cyber Monday… America should be thankful for capitalism!
On a separate note, I was thinking about how stores have been opening on Thursday night (Thanksgiving) the last few years instead of Friday at midnight. Black Friday is expanding. It’s swelling beyond its boundaries. It’s infecting holidays that happen earlier than it starts. It’s like… it’s like… it’s turning into a tiny version of Christmas.
STOP IT! I wanna enjoy each holiday separately! I wanna go to Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores in October and see scary things that don’t involve Santa! I wanna eat turkey on Thanksgiving without shopping for or distributing gifts! Seriously, is that too much to ask? *sigh* Capitalism sucks.
