A crush of overeager shoppers tore down the front doors and thronged into a Wal-Mart store in suburban New York, killing a temporary employee. NYT | All Eyes on Holiday Shopping Turnout in Bleak Economy
This story made me hate humans for awhile. I'm back to mostly liking (most of) them now, but still feel ready to sell everything I own to the hungry mobs and move to Iceland. But honestly, why are we so disgusting?
because we live in a highly consumer-oriented society?
it's not consumer-oriented... it's product-desperate. desperation by the corps. to make the customers think they're making out like bandits if they show up @ 5 am to save $10. desperation by the customers to get every last thing little johnny wanted. you can be a consumer oriented society (japan) and not have people trampled to death less than 12 hours after finishing thanksgiving turkey. as i heard it so well put, "people were so thankful with the things they had, they needed to go out and buy the next best thing before their meal was digested."
This is pure JG Ballard 'Kingdom Come' stuff.
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This story made me hate humans for awhile. I'm back to mostly liking (most of) them now, but still feel ready to sell everything I own to the hungry mobs and move to Iceland.
But honestly, why are we so disgusting?
because we live in a highly consumer-oriented society?
it's not consumer-oriented...
it's product-desperate.
desperation by the corps. to make the customers think they're making out like bandits if they show up @ 5 am to save $10.
desperation by the customers to get every last thing little johnny wanted.
you can be a consumer oriented society (japan) and not have people trampled to death less than 12 hours after finishing thanksgiving turkey.
as i heard it so well put,
"people were so thankful with the things they had, they needed to go out and buy the next best thing before their meal was digested."
This is pure JG Ballard 'Kingdom Come' stuff.
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