Washington Interns Gone Bad: “Consumers Gone Wild!”
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It’s that day again. The day that the retail branch of corporate America wants you to go out and buy shit. It’s like the high holy day in the church of consumerism. You always hear about how every year in some other part of the world, some pilgrims of some other religion trample each other to death while racing to some holy thingamagiggy or other. Well it’s no surprise that it’s finally happened here, and it’s no surprise that the place it happened was in one of the grand cathedrals of everything that is wrong with American consumerist society.
A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said. [full story]
Wake up, America! It’s just the mall, not a Who concert in Cincinnati. Was one day at home with your family so much to bear that you need to ditch them to go shove through throngs of strangers the very next day, devolving into wild animals on the hunt for your consumable prey?
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