Black Friday is the most disgusting and disturbing social event in Late Stage America. It’s not a holiday, although it directly follows Thanksgiving – rather, it’s an event that embodies all of the worst aspects of our managed decline. Our decadent and devolved form of capitalism requires that it pollute a traditional holiday celebrating family and gratitude. Black Friday is simply another rider of (consumer) doom and heralds more asinine spending for the Christmas season.
Who attends Black Friday “sales”? Conduct an inventory of your associates, family and friends to answer that question. Generally speaking, irresponsible, shortsighted and high time preference people “enjoy” Black Friday. Have you ever met a brain surgeon waiting six hours in line, in the freezing cold, outside of Target to save $100 dollars on a Samsung television? How about your local Congressman? Did Bill Gates wait in line with you, while nursing a Starbucks coffee, to eventually rush the doors at Walmart to palm a new Keurig?
In case you’re not aware, someone with a high time preference is focused substantially on their well-being in the present and the immediate future relative to the average person, while someone with low time preference places more emphasis than average on their well-being in the further future. In essence, high time preference folks need instant, or near-instant, gratification. They’re typically poor, unemployed or underemployed, poor decision makers, impulsive and are of low intelligence. Black Friday shoppers aren’t strategic planners, they’re people that forget to renew their car insurance.
The reason intelligent people don’t debase themselves by wasting their early morning hours to get a reduced price on a tablet is because their time is more important than saving a few bucks on a product that will be obsolete within six months. High time preference people aren’t capable of making this distinction. They want that shiny, discounted product NOW. They’re consumers and this is their Superbowl. They’ll talk about Black Friday weeks in advance, more so than Thanksgiving or other major holidays, because this is when (and where) they’ll get “the best deals.”
They are thralls to consumer capitalism and slaves to their own desires. Nothing is more repugnant than witnessing a father of three leave his family Thanksgiving night, and with the turkey still warm, to camp outside of a GameStop to purchase extra discounted used-games for his Xbox One. Or, even worse, to see an entire family binge buying for 24 solid hours once the clock strikes midnight. It so cheapens our humanity and worsens our sanity. And, the elites love it.
Black Friday shoppers aren’t buying food for their hungry children or heartfelt mementos for their lonely grandparents either. They’re buying plastic widgets and useless trinkets. They’re buying another Nintendo variation, forgettable toys, yet another unnecessary giant television, and digital cameras they’ll rarely, if ever, even use. Ultimately, this is sheer gluttony for a people already living paycheck to paycheck.
Think about what you could be doing this Friday morning, instead of battling over gratuitous shopping. You could have slept in or you could have enjoyed a cup of coffee with your visiting family (or even made breakfast for them). There’s so much more than shopping. Especially, when you’ve already got a stretched wallet and no savings. The elites want us mindlessly consuming because they want to maintain their permanent underclass. Don’t give them the satisfaction – spend time with your family instead.
If you’ve ever made the mistake of grocery shopping around the first of the month, or otherwise received an “emergency” call from the wife asking you to stop and pick up a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread on your way home from work around the same time of the month, you have been in close contact with the sort of person(s) looking to land a “bargain” on “Black Friday.” The crassness and vulgarity of such people literally knows no bounds, but you have to feel for them in a certain sense nevertheless.
I have never personally been to a Black Friday event, and would never do so, but I know a few people better off than I am – hard working, low time preference and so on, who have done so … once, and only once, during the course of their adult lives. They all have the same horror story to tell of their experience, the bottom line of which is always “good lesson learned; I’ll never do it again.” Good on them!
All the women in my family go shopping on black Friday for Christmas presents. None go out all night, just make the rounds of sales for specific items. My wife is getting ready to go at 11:00 this morning. I don’t think its as bad everywhere as you see on tv, I haven’t heard any “combat shopping ” stories in 15 years.
It’s a wonder they, i.e. the Jewish media, don’t change the name of this unbecoming ritual, since blacks are conspicuous by their presence at many of the department store stampedes one sees in TV news coverage of the sales.