Killing For Bargains
The idea that people would trample a man while shopping on Black Friday makes me literally ill. The idea that we are a complaining about this year’s Thanksgiving turkey being too dry when we see the crisis in Mumbai also makes me shake my head.
Yes, I’m cranky this morning. I’m just like everyone else wondering if I’m going to have a job at Christmas and perplexed about my future. I talk to people and I hear the underlying tone in their voices as well. I’m broke and tired and just plum fed up as they are.
What’s next? What the hell is next?
A man was trampled to death by shoppers. A family is burying their loved one because bargains couldn’t wait? In all honesty, I don’t blame Wal-Mart, I blame the arrogance and impatience of people who do not value others and have such a sense of entitlement that their needs are more important than waiting frigging five seconds.
It truly boggles my mind. Are we as a society so selfish that we can’t be grateful for a damned thing? That we can’t think of others? Are we savages?
As I said, I’m cranky today. I own it and I’m usually quite cheerful. But on the other hand, I’m tired of people thinking that crap like this is alright.
It’s not alright.
Forgive me for my rant but I just don’t get it. Every time I think as human beings we are in this together I’m reminded that everyone has their own agenda.
And damn the torpedoes.
Rant over.
“Every time I think as human beings we are in this together I’m reminded that everyone has their own agenda.”
Each person should ask themselves if they are part of the problem or part of the solution and have the balls to stand up to whomever they need to and say and do to the right thing.
It’s your decision, (and everyones-not just you) to be part of the problem or part of the solution.
You can kill someone metaphorically for a bargain and your own agenda too, even if it means lying to them and lying about them.
That’s murder, too. When you (falsely) kill their reputation, it’s the same thing.
See? We’re in the same mood.
Maybe we should go back to sleep.
You may be right. Sleep would be good.
Somebody on another blog left the comment that the sort of person who would crowd outside a WalMart or mall entrance hours before 5:00 AM just for a bargain, even one who is not willing to resort to violence (sure, how many aren’t capable of it under such conditions) are of a different mindset which he (like me, and all who are still human) couldn’t understand). Another (who was probably part of that mob) replied that it’s to each his own, different strokes for different folks – simple as that, no sensitivity to the violence which had been committed nor for the victims whatsoever! I had technical problems with my reply, but it would have been that there’s a need to expunge such a “mindset” from the human genome by any means necessary, and that as long as Long Island people continue to live as, raise their children as, and behave as rats, that extermination would be nothing short of appropriate! Their cutthroat culture has, for too long, tainted the American image with the world, and this is a very dangerous time for them to do something so uniquely stupid as this. It never would have happened in upstate New York, but that will remain true only as long as we can prevent them from migrating north! Send in the National Guard to save the world from these vermin!
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. It just pisses me off to no end, this kind of disgustingness (is that a word?).
I should go back to bed, too.
another thing…
I must have grown up in a different world, because when I am a guest at a thanksgiving dinner, whether it be with family, friends or strangers..I would NEVER say the turkey was too dry, too salty, etc… yet I did hear that at the thanksgiving dinner I was at. In my head I thought..good freaking gawd..be THANKFUL for the dinner, salty or no…and STFU.
Ok NOW I am going to back to bed.
We’re in a similar place this morning….
There are days I’m thinking society needs one major attitude adjustment…
i don’t think that wal-mart should be held accountable, but we all know there will be lawsuits out the patooty over this, so in a way, they will be. the idea that they will “try to find the people reponsible” is a joke. how do they possibly think they will find each and every person who charged the doors and caused this horrific event? it can’t be done.
which adds another question to the mix…should only SOME of the people be charged if they are identified? can an event such as this even be blamed on anything other than the entire “group” that charged the door? should individual members of this shopping party gone bad be charged if they are not ALL charged?
these are questions that make me realize that i need a nap as well. ugh
If the doors had not shattered, many more might be dead from the crush behind them. I like to think I’m mob resistant – and, sure enough, being in this kind of crowd gives me the willies so that I usually get the hell out. But I think it’s one of the drawbacks of being a social species that we sometimes lose our heads and act as if we’re the blob instead of thinking individuals.
Nonetheless, this kind of event is well known and predictable, and Walmart should have been ready for it with security and queuing and training. Walmart should be held accountable in just the same way a swimming pool owner who leaves the gate open is when a toddler drowns.
NY Upstater, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that attitudes like yours are part of the problem. Start regarding other people as rats and you might as well trample them, huh?
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As though the crap wouldn’t still be there at 6 am, or 7 am. It’s WalMart.
Some nimrod will sue because he or she was traumatized to be part of the mob that killed somebody and he or she will want compensation for his or her pain and suffering.