Wired For Noise

In America, the Thanksgiving turkey is really just the warm-up meal. It’s part of the preparation, the feast before the real festival. That festival commonly known as Black Friday.
This is the festival of mass consumerism, a ritual meant to drive sales figures into the black and debt into astronomical amounts. A great rite, if you [...]

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It’s been years since I joined the mass frenzy of shoppers that happens the day after Thanksgiving. Not because I’ve always been conscious of my shopping, at first it was mainly because large crowds in small places makes me feel claustrophobic. I avoided the shopping rush to keep myself from a yearly nervous breakdown. [...]

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