shopping madness and free Thanksgiving dinners

[Bill McBlueState]

On Thursday, pretty much every small town newspaper in the country ran a front page story about how the "less fortunate" were lining up at one local charity or another for a free Thanksgiving dinner. Then on Friday, front pages around the nation had images of crazed shoppers beating down the doors of Wal-Mart to buy, buy, buy.

But you never see any effort on the opinion pages or elsewhere to explain why some people line up for free Thanksgiving dinners, while other people line up to buy flat-screen TVs. People seem to be content with the division of society into these two groups. Nobody ever questions what is at the root of all this. Why not? Are people afraid what they might find if they start asking these questions... that maybe their new techno-gadgets are the result of luck, social privilege, and accidents of birth just as much as their own hard work?

[CrispyQ]

1. They would have to face their own greed & selfishness. eom

[Bill McBlueState]

2. ah, let's give it a kick.

:kick: