Your word for today, Black Friday, is: MATERIALISM.
Living Simply And Still On The Grid
Somewhere In Maryland, Still Searching For Reality
Your word for today, Black Friday, is: MATERIALISM.
Living Simply And Still On The Grid 
The day after “Thanks Giving day” is “Get all you can get” day.
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So true. I just try to stay out of their way.
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They don’t even wait until Friday anymore!
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Hide the credit cards!
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No, it’s worse than that. Material things are beautiful things, or can be. The world we know is matter. I cherish *things*. Things made by hands, things made by ingenuity and machinery, things that have fallen by the side of the road.
The horror of Black Friday is the lust of conquest, the notion that by staying up for 24 hours or queueing for a parking spot, we have somehow ACHIEVED something. It’s not materialism, it’s narcissism that cranks this tractor.
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A very profound insight. Thank you, Ms. Sled.
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