Quotable: Wal-Mart Shopper
I’ve been on line since yesterday morning…Unnamed Wal-Mart Shopper
This is what was uttered when a shopper was told to leave the store because a Wal-Mart seasonal employee was just trampled to death by a horde of 2,000 Black Friday shoppers (including the speaker) on Long Island. You know, I’m sure Sam Walton’s vision for America was the looming threat that any of his stores could turn into a crime scene immediately following a celebration of thanksgiving.
This is disgusting. We are literally willing to kill each other to save a few bucks at retail. We are just one step away from the Colosseum, people. Grab the reins!
Well, aren’t Americans really just maintaining the tradition of America, trampling everything in site in the sacred quest to obtain more? More land, more money, more oil, more stuff.
It seems like the most traditional way of all to celebrate the history of our country.
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December 1st, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I take your callous point, but I find myself responding to the shallow depravity of our society by seeking out what America really was supposed to be about. I know that the British originally came here seeking “more,” but the nation was founded on the idea of each of us having a piece to ourselves. Yes, that was a hard-scrabble notion from the get-go, but it wasn’t about me having mine, yours and the guy next to you as well. It doesn’t have to be like that (or this). Yes, I sound like some kind of hippie, but really, America has never been about killing your neighbor for a discount on a flat panel TV.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Things like this tend to brink out the darkest sarcasm in me.
I have a natural inclination to argue against you on this point, to take the view that our nation’s history is more horrid than beautiful. But, on the same hand, I want to believe that our nation, and people, are capable of being something more decent than we currently are.
Oh, and I did start reading “A People’s History” over the weekend.
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