Thoughts on Black Friday
Friday, November 28th, 2008It’s Black Friday … go buy some shit; it’s the American way. If I’m not there in ten minutes, start without me …
Consumer buying is one of many symptoms, along with an increasing yield to peer pressure, aligning with fads, and general herd mentality; among other symptomatic behavior, that has grown over the last several decades as a result of a societal shift in the mind-world relation from internalism to externalism.
In short, as one’s sense of being becomes less dependent or centered on an internal stable base of self worth with a relatively slow evolution as affected by external factors only after filtration through a somewhat fixed inner world view and becomes more, if not wholly, dependent on rapidly shifting external factors, one’s sense of self-worth or completeness rapidly changes along with the continual shift in modern society’s focus on topical importance given to things, ideas, and values which, by virtue of their temporal nature, have no real value.
Thus we “consume endlessly, to get that little bit of fleeting satisfaction that, for a brief moment, makes us feel better inside”.