Reply #23: Thanks to our lust for 'stuff,' Thanksgiving has been degraded to Black Friday Eve. [View All]

[bulloney]

The sheer stupidity of this whole Christmas shopping mindset we have in this country shows our ignorance in full bloom:

Staying out overnight in freezing temperatures outside a store for hours just so you have a shot at buying that "stuff" the store has deliberately stocked in limited supply to promote this stupidity;

The materialism that overtakes our minds during the season;

Totally forgetting what the Christmas season is all about;

Bastardizing Thanksgiving Day.

And we're supposed to be this enlightened, god-fearing society whose religion, we think, is superior to other faiths. Yet we bastardize the birthday of the person we worship into some month-long over-commercialized, materialistic free-for-all...with football.

Couldn't agree with you more, Ilsa.