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Guest Post: Woman Pepper Sprays Shoppers To Get Xbox
From Brandon Smith of Alt Market
Woman Pepper Sprays Shoppers To Get Xbox
It never fails. Every Black Friday we get yet another heaping helping of pure unadulterated ignorant mentally deficient bottom feeding fat-saturated sheeple mania. Every year it gets worse. And, every holiday season I am faced with the painful question of whether or not these people are actually worth saving. My answer so far has always been a begrudging "yes". Many of them have been conditioned by a society on the brink of collapse, not just of economy, but also of conscience. That doesn't mean, however, that I excuse this kind of behavior. Frankly, if some mongoloid Wal-Mart shopper tried to pepper spray me in the face for a video game, I would beat them into cranberry sauce and drink some delicious eggnog to celebrate. Is this a well balanced response? Probably not. But then again, they would likely think twice before pulling the same stunt on anyone else. Actually, in my humble opinion, at least half the population of this country needs a good a smack upside the head. Seriously......this situation is getting uncomfortably crooked.......
Imagine how these same people might act in the event that they not only get no Xbox, but no food due to financial instability. Imagine a 200 pound spoiled toddler with an addiction to immediate gratification being told "you are owed nothing". The response would probably be similar to (or even worse than) a large portion of the American populace as featured in the videos below:
And for more Black Friday despair, check out the rap sheet for Wal-Marts across the country yesterday:
http://news.yahoo.com/battle-black-friday-deals-includes-pepper-spray-sh...
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if you walked away empty handed and didnt hurt someone, than you just arent trying hard enough
It is depressing to see so many stupid monkeys living in this country.
depressing for some, a sick opportunity for others.
Momma called the Fed and the Fed said no more monkeys jumping on the bed!
Remember everyone...
The children are our future. Save the children. Who will protect the children?
But "MY CHILD FIRST!"
Its shit like this, Mexicans. Oh well, +1 for the black community i guess.
She is 5' 3" and 140 pounds? Something tells me she had one too many tamales at Thanksgiving.
She's all ass.
you lads have been reading the Women's Mags again, haven't you. . .
Bela Lugosi: Home? I have no home. Hunted... despised... living like an animal. The jungle is my home! But I will show the world that I can be its master. I shall perfect my own race of people... a race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!
Let's hear it;
http://youtu.be/OFAUq9cqC9k
http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com/
The Pursuit of Profit by Peter Joseph
I've witnessed pre-hurricane grocery store wipeouts in the South and they were actually quite orderly and civilized compared to the Black Friday spectacles. Strange that Christmas makes people crazier than impending devastation. Ah, what a wonderful time of year......
The supply/demand imbalance in those situations is significantly less than the artificial ones created for Black Friday. Those survival goods are generally normally priced, there is a fairly large supply of them, and there is not specific start time that creates an artificial crowd.
Systems can make good people go crazy. That's all there is to it.
Good point.
The supply/demand imbalance changes extremely fast prior to hurricanes, so even though the grocers don't wait for half the town to be camping in their parking lots before unlocking the doors, the sense of urgency is very real. If you put off your trip to Winn-Dixie until the storm is already gathering, the pickins will most definitely be slim (to none). And I certainly didn't notice much Christian charity amongst the shoppers, although it was in the heart of Southern Baptist-ville. They had theirs and if you didn't get there in time to get yours, then tough titties. There was a palpable 'every man for himself' feeling, but still, as I said, orderly.
That situation is several magnitudes more serious than scoring a killer deal on an Xbox so I find your comparison a bit dubious. Perhaps I missed your point.
"Extremely fast" is not "instantaneous". All these injuries happen when a giant crowd is gathered, riled up, and then let loose all at once. That simply doesn't happen with storms. A lot of demand gets filled, and there is a real urgency to make those trades, but the fundamental human nature of the actors in the two cases is no different, which is what so many people in this thread seem to think.
Even here, people are still allow the system as it stands to frame their thinking.
wow, i guess one who wishes to shop on "black friday" has to arm themselves to protect from all the brainwashed sheep consumer zombies. How do you kill these zombies? cut off their credit?
Man:" so how do you intend on paying for this years shopping spree?"
Woman: "ehh i just swipe the credit card{smiling}"
Banker (watching the interview): "{smiling}"
When I hear friends and family say they are going to shop on the day after Thanksgiving I feel really sad. I can't imagine wanting to be any part of that crowd.
if you feel the urge to shop on blFri, you just aren't smoking good enough weed
... (cough) ... I didn't go anywhere on Friday.
Go to a book shop. No rush, no pepper spray and even rioters/looters will not bother (like during recent UK riots).
Going to jail over Xbox...unbelievable. Americans/Britons are going the way of the Dodo bird. Too stupid for their own good.
Books are like Kryptonite to Black Firday shoppers.
Lol!
There's black people, and then there's...
"There's black people, and then there's. . ."
and then there's what? bankers? who are you setting up here?
It's a Chris Rock routine. Let me see if I can find it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
Hilarious! :D
niggers come in all colours.
Only problem is that most of the good bookstores in the Malls closed. Borders in the Galleria closed like 5~6 months ago.
I always found refuge in the bookstore when trapped in a mall. Can't find a bookstore in a mall anymore.
This is emblamatic of the times I take it.
chimp activity at wally world by walmartians.............welcome to the amerikan gulag............
You can teach a chimp to vote, but not restraint.
I have waited 8 hours to board a packed train in China to be rewarded standing room only, no food or drink much less a bathroom for 7 hours on a train...a little pushing but nothing like this. I looked around and saw people much less able than myself still managing to raise a smile at me. Seeing this, I managed to control my angst and infact it taught me a lesson I will never forget.
Every year there are crazy events on Black Friday, and retailers swear up and down they want to prevent deaths or injuries, and then the next year they run the same promotions.
I'm not sure how/why it would be beneficial to a business to get people hurt or killed while trying to get one of the "door buster" deals, but I guess that's why I'm not running a box-store.
All publicity is good publicity. "Our sales were so great that people were willing to kill / die for them". I would guess that this is what they want to get across to the public. Buzz is buzz. Marketing people kill for "buzz".
I can't say you can blame the retailers. They tried to change things up. Open up earlier , space out the promotions, and have the same promotions on line. It's not the retailers fault. These people are just fucking stupid. I hate to say that , it goes against my nature, but unfortunatly it's true.
If they had one ounce gold coins there for $1000.00, how many people on this thread would be doing the same shit?
Oh come on. You're talking "absurdum infinitum" or whatever the hell that Latin phrase is. No fair!
I would be packin more than pepper spray and I would "taze you bro." ;-)
Oh you said gold coins? Barbaric relic.
I like my paper gold. ;-)
OK sure, the retailers have no involvement at all in the fact that this seems to happen every year.
That's why people get trampled to death and pepper-sprayed on line at the hot-dog street vendor, too. That's why there are deaths and shootings at the DMV every other day, and in line at the movies.
The people are just that stupid.
(Well...SOME obviously are.)
Yeah sure it was the retailer who gave the lady the mace and said go spray that person and take their Xbox. Or go trample that person and get that waffle iron. The fact is that the retailers tried to change things,extend the promotions and still the golden horde came trampling in. People have a choice they can choose to go be part of the herd and risk their neck over a cheap Chinese trinket or they can choose not to be part of that. People like you never want to hold the individual accountable for the choice they made. It's always somebody else's fault or the fault of the environment, but never ever the individual.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I don't blame the retailers for the behavior of the individuals. I blame the retailers for not using the tiniest hint of common sense when it comes to planning their events.
If you want to get people hurt, you set up sales based on time of arrival using "first come, first served" tactics. If you want to offer a similar promotion without the rampages of idiots, you do it as a raffle or lottery system.
(PS: Where do you get your ideas about what I believe? They're certainly not based on what I'm writing.)
the retailers cal the promotions "door busters" and that is literally what happens and what they want.
i think the operative word here is "walMart"
~~always a shopping advenure~~
but on blFri? for the "door-busters"?
that's not holiday shopping; that's rollerball, BiCheZ!!!
Welcome to the Thunderdome, bitch!
A good reason to do your shopping at the local "fun" store a week in advance, although Brownells had some specials for "black rifle friday". I'm just glad my local meijers sells ammunition. I can get, beer, beans, and bullets, all in the same shopping cart! No blasters that fire more than a pellet, but I have the regular kind already.
And best yet, stares at the checkout counter when I have 2 or 3 bricks of .22 set back to pay for along with a pile of canned foods.
Plus my 2 year old loves the fish. A shopping trip is a meandering affair with a journey that coincidentally wanders past the fish section so he can see them at least 2 or 3 times.
Pepper spray is truly the gift that keeps on giving!
Are cattle prods too old fashioned?
I find it amusing that every year the black friday crowd camps out a week in advance to get a "__% off" deal of imported crap, and there's usually 3 or 4 in stock for the teeming masses.
The same people that can't show up to work on time can wait 8 hours for useless shit on Black Friday. That is what I find so ironic. If this was a job they were going to they would surely be late (and have a great excuse).
Amerika's version of Running of the Bulls.. Imagine these same "people" when they really need something like food- it will be more like a the scenes of section 8 housing give aways where the least needy get there first. Jeezus Christ would be launching lightning bolts at these skums if he truly existed. They blame the drop in tourism due to the increased hurdles of entering this country...I tend to think images of things like this and the glorification of gangsters have shown the world that there is truly nothing special anymore about the USA. It is time to dissolve the union.
When I watch footage of the Black Friday crap, I think of the scenes of the people of Japan following the earthquake and tsunami. Stark contrast.
'The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.'
-Norman O Brown
Panic stricken. Frightened. Confused. I'm pretty sure Black Friday is the first victory 'Corporate America' has had over whatever other America is left...
Corporate mandated Holiday Tradition.
Only modern advertising could have created such a homicidal sense of urgency around the satisfying of needs that are false to begin with.
Modern advertising + Robotic iJunk sheep = Marketing bonanza
There is only one thing to blame this on: The deterioration of morality in society.
Blaming this on Walmart is an injustice. The fact is, people should never behave like this in a civilized society. Period.
"And, every holiday season I am faced with the painful question of whether or not these people are actually worth saving."
Answer: no they are not. The majority of these shoppers are debt ridden, receive government assistance, and pay no Federal taxes - They teach their kids shit for manners and produce another generation worse than themselves. Fuck them.
So you are saying that paying fed taxes is a good thing , maybe you should go shopping on black Friday you sound as brainwashed as they are.
chinaguy remarked:
Sounds like Goldman Sachs, JPMChase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Shittygroup, General Electric, etc.
True. But blame Wal-Mart and its ilk too. Takes two to tango.
careful, you're stepping outside the acceptable response box.
The U.S. Consumer cannot be stopped.
Come hell or high water
They will keep spending, they are tired of "gloom and doom".
No credit card company I can think of has scaled back generous offers.
Virtually every car manufacturer, retailer of furniture, or electronics store is still offering zero percent financing.
Wake me up when the XRT closes under $44
We are still $3 over the 2007 highs.
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaavio.Webhost/charts/big.chart?nosetti...
<-- mark as trash
He's partially right though. The US consumer will not be stopped, at least from within the American social structure as it stands today. China will however.
Sales volume dosent equate to higher earnings in the case of 2 dollar wafflemakers.
robo, stick with your hindsight calls, please. black friday will be a success because people have been waiting for deals in this crappy economy. however, after black friday, sales will fall off a cliff.............
"They will keep spending, they are tired of "gloom and doom"."
They are not getting gloom and doom, they are getting talk of green shoots. If you watch the news you will get 50% commercials, and 49% propaganda, and one percent reality which will be cleverly disguised so the uninitiated will not even be able to perceive it.
These are the kind of people that will put Hitler into office next year.
I say give them the X-box for free. Take everything else away from them.
Everything.
Imagine how these same people might act in the event that they not only get no Xbox, but no food due to financial instability. Imagine a 200 pound spoiled toddler with an addiction to immediate gratification being told "you are owed nothing". The response would probably be similar to (or even worse than) a large portion of the American populace as featured in the videos below:
An FAL shuts up a mob and causes them to disperse with a certified quickness. The 300-pound Wendy's-fed fat asses you see storming into Best Buy would quickly become your bitch. Food shortages? Eh. Bring it on.
I would not want that as a bitch.
Based on my experience with (well fed) prison labor in NJ, it is better to pay for something productive than get a liability for free.
Wow. I just woke up after getting some great deals during a midnight Thanksgiving black friday big screen tv shopping marathon. Did I miss anything?
I have the urge to drink early today after talking to my good friend on the phone this morning. I guess he talked w/his daughter last night for a holiday get-in-touch. She's mid 20's w/3 little kids, doesn't work. The hubby was unemployed for a while but got a good job (machinist, aircraft parts) about 6 mos ago. She and family went to the mall for black friday and didn't even buy xmas gifts but spent a lot of $ including $80 for a decorative "sword". She wanted $ from my buddy because other than t-day leftovers there's not much food in the house and they're on FOODSTAMPS and have to get thru the end of the month!!!! I guess he called to share his aneurism. Speechless.
the "$80 decorative sword" I'm guessing is for the father of the "three little kids," the father who has "a good job," but still has "FOODSTAMPS" coming in, and hasn't learned to use his paycheck to feed the wife 'n' kids yet.
Bingo! makes your head explode, no? It's like the mentality is the food comes from food stamps so the other money is just gravy for whatever shit they want - kids having kids and having no fucking clue.
their story is fairly common in that age group - coming of age in the past seven years or so is really a minefield if you're not paying close attention, and who truly does that in their twenties? definitely "kids" with no clue - and when the clues stack up to reality for them, they'll not know what hit them, like a tidal wave. . .
I think we all had some growing up to do along the way, but this current crop of 20-somethings in amrka, it's going to be brutal.
(I've met some amazing, smart, clued-up folks in that age group as well, innovative & working together for self-sufficiency, community - but they're the minority, as is always the way)
Dude, I know. It's really sad and I'm glad I don't have kids. Which seems like a really shitty thing to say but, the way things have gone down, I mean it. I've gone on rants about cellphone-induced autism but really, it gets more true day by day - their body language is (non-politically correct) retarded!! Even young couples I see out are all just absorbed in their personal hand-held device when they're supposed to be on a date. I have another friend that has been a high school math teacher for a long time. He's 60 and planning to retire after this year and they told him (according to him) that he could teach whatever he wants this year. He tells me he's covering everything from how to practice birth control to what happened in '08 and doesn't give a fuck cause he's out anyway. I tuned him in to ZH and haven't talked to him for a minute. Should this week and curious to see what he thinks/what he's doing.
Not a shitty thing to say at all. I'm not sure how people have been pre-programed on how to live their lives. Grow up, get married, and then have kids. A person should not have children unless they REALLY want children and understand how much time and money it takes to raise a child properly. My stepdaughter is 26 with 4 children, the oldest is 8. She is OVERWHELMED on a daily basis, her husband is not much help and they live almost 1000 miles away so I can't help with the kids much. I refer to her as Quatro Mom.
Graphic video:
"Newman was shopping at a Wal-Mart store in Buckeye, Arizona late Thursday night along with thousands of other Americans who congregate to celebrate consumerism in a post-holiday bargain hunting binge called Black Friday. Newman says he became overwhelmed by the crowds at the Wal-Mart he was shopping at, so he attempted to lift his grandkid into the air to avoid a mob of violent shoppers. To free his hands, Newman says he placed a video game into his waistband and tried to launch the youngster out of the crowd. Police suspected the man of shoplifting, however, and took him down. Hard."
http://rt.com/usa/news/black-friday-newman-police-269/
Oh yeah, that's the dude who got his face smashed in for allegedly resisting arrest. Apparently carrying around merchandise inside Buckeye Wal-Marts indicates an intent to steal. Saw it on LiveLeak. Dude got super jacked by the fuzz.
They're not worth saving, but the only reason you can't massacre them is it opens up a slippery slope...
Did the latino bitch get her X-Box or leave empty-handed? Hmmmmm.
Shopping at Walmart is a degrading experience at any time. I had a better time when I visited a GUM department store in Soviet Russia in the 80s.
My work group team has adopted a family to buy presents for on the basis that they expect to have no Christmas gifts at all.
Hats off to you and your team. Nicely done.
Want to see the scum of the earth?
People of wal mart...
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
THE scum of the earth? you can't find better SCUM???
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this is why i finally bought a gun.
Because you'd shoot someone over your xbox?
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When someone carries a gun, you cannot deal with them by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade them, because they have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There, explained it to ya.
I just got back to Bangkok where the city is sandbagged (the BIGGEST banks of course with the highest sandbag barracades) and many middle class people simply living (eeking) out their lives with a flooded household going on 2 to 3 months now. A serious resignation is the predominant undertone.
My Pakistani contacts are extremely upset with the Wazistan border killings of 28 Pakistan soldiers by the US NATO forces. I have found these particular Paki's to be markedly tolerant of previous drone killings, mistaken bombing of weddings, fosterings of internal instabilities and all sort of friendly fire types of "casualties" however this recent mistake has got them irked. In fact, very pissed off I'd say... I look for an escalation on this one....BTW, lest we forget....Pakistanis are the proud owners of the "only muslim nuclear bomb" and they are not hesitant to remind me...Any STRATFOR updates on this one?
The victims' families will be bought off. I think that's why these stories fade so quickly. Sorry for being cold and cynical.
Erich Fromm - Ch. 5 “Man in Capitalistic Society” Sect. C.2.b “Alienation”
"I think that human systems are inherently chaotic, and we create things like rituals and traditions and calendars to provide some recurring periodic stability to our culture. Over time these recurring periodic rituals grow into religions where the central dogma revolves around imposing peace and order in an otherwise chaotic or misguided world. And then you get civilization, which is moral order imposed through laws and brute force. And then you get commercialization, which is order imposed through repetitive marketing of products and belief systems with the promise of beauty, love, acceptance, wealth, and salvation. And then you get where we are now, the age of irony, which is post-commercial and based on tragicomic critique of the banality of our repetitive ordered systems. However, nobody “planned” the age of irony, it grew out of being constantly bombarded with empty religious, political, and commercial propaganda, and our growing awareness that society is little more than an ongoing mind game of manipulation and deceit. This can be described as something like a chaotic transition to higher awareness, but it is not something I see as a spiritual awakening or an evolution of consciousness, it is a transition in critical thinking about the nature of media and control. The age of irony is like a control-interrupt that allows us to step out of preconceived notions and expose the top-down rules of society for what they are – a group hallucination that we all buy into – and use that perspective to laugh about how we’re all stuck in it, make critiques about it, and formulate new paradigms. The age of irony is a stable convergence zone between ideological order and intellectual anarchy that grew out the chaos of runaway commercialization and propaganda. What comes next is more intense drumbeating seeking to overthrow critical irony with more elaborate promises and deceptions until one sticks and takes hold of the popular consciousness until the next transition."James Kent
Forging new paradigms is evolutionary. Age of irony indeed. Good Sunday mental cornflakes, thanks.
I'm torn here. On one hand I want it all to fall apart to save this nation from its madness of being consumed with stuff. The value we place on stuff is insane. But on the other hand I know there will be a lot of culling too when this zombie golden horde gets cut off. It's going to take a lot to rebuild this nation.
She's clearly a high school graduate... Where's Charlotte Isherbyt when you need her!?
This bullshit can't end soon enough for me. OUT OF THE GENE POOL! NOW!
Some guy got SHOT for a $98 television...
http://www.waff.com/story/16119585/black-friday-shooting-at-myrtle-beach...
C3X full portfolio performance continues to beat even the best hedge funds for the last 4 months
http://capital3x.com/think-tank/performance-week-of-nov-26/
The guy with the horn in the second video would be better served with a cattle prodder.
Looking out across the crowd here in the U.S., I would say that we will need 120 million Darwin Awards when "the checks stop coming".
Many of their little kids won't deserve to be so served. Some certain percentage of them through pluck and some extraordinary DNA, (and a viable market economy), could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and left their parents behind.
IMO, ZH has a bit of a MSM flavor with this WALMART puff piece.
Why no coverage of something that may be of real interest:
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window
I suppose I'll be seeing you in the camps then.
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Black Friday is like Bernanke hanging out of his helicopter and covering the US far and wide with Groupon vouchers instead of fiat money
....probably worth the same amount though
Agreed: what happens when these folks are cut from things "owed to them".
Time to cull the herd.
Our planet will always have an Epsilon Caste.
"I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons"
However disgusting they are to watch....holding court and contempt for those types of people will change nothing. The majority of that part of society are very comfortable in living out their life terms on this planet as "mass consumers" and slaves to be exploited for the benefit of the ruling class.
They will not care what others think of them. They would not have the attention span to come to a website like ZH and view what is being said about them.
If you do happen to come across one that seems to have the mental capacity to grasp the concept of how ridiculous the nature of their being really is....I invite you to give them the verbal lesson of what you're thinking....and watch their reaction. It may go well....and they may snap outta their slumber. It also may go not so well....and then comes an attack that could turn physical.
But that's really the state we are in now....these people are relegated to having the minds of children for their entire lives. Politicians love them...for how easy they are to manipulate with "free trinkets"...and empty promises. They are the "livestock" of the Social Planners who were all along....just "Human Farming"
Bring back 'Self Reliance' and cut the govt. umbilical cord and some of these people may grow a purpose....and some self respect. Most likely....that will come after a bit of chaos more powerful than a trip to Wal-Mart on 'Black Friday'
How about this: direct Lakeesha's -- obviously simmering -- rage against the retail model. Why does the consumer accept paying double what the retailer paid? Why does a retailer "let out" little paroxysms of low prices instead an across-the-board retail reduction policy? (I'll give you a hint, it rhymes with waifty salve.)
I think if every Jane, Kuc and DeShauna in Minneapolis made some real noise, Target would be the first to fall.
WTF!?!? Ebay morons! DERP!
This feels like mental conditioning, only directed at the waked ones. The message: "The revolution will be televised, bitches."
This is what I see in all the big box stores....sad, pathetic third world people who have lost any dignity they may have had in their homeland. This will not end well.
America...it was good to know ya. I wonder what the native indians think when they see this sort of thing?
"Some people should die..... that's just unconscious knowledge."
Jane's Addiction +1
What an awesome album. I was fortunate to see Janes Addiction twice on their "Nothing's Shocking" Tour in 1988 @ the Cabaret Metro in Chicago. Oddly enough, it was during Thanksgiving Weekend .
That album was revelation to me. Even though I lived in Seattle at the time, I wasn't listening to proto-grunge at all. "Nothing's Shocking" totally broke down the butt-rock stereotypes for me and I think the mainstream success of the grunge bands would have been impossible without this record.
Cecil Adams of the Straight Dope fame has a tagline: Fighting ignorance since 1978 -- it's taking longer than we thought. Seems relevant.
Although at this point it should be "Fighting ignorants..."
Seems, to me, that pepper spray manufacturers must be having an amazing quarter.
USA ! USA !
We are the best !
I think it's easy to say "look at the sheep meander around, or trample others to save 5$ on a new break maker". But it's not as simple as that.
Sheep arent born, they're a product of the culture, and just like anything it can take quite some time for this to wear off.
They buy because they're depressed, they buy because they're happy. They do this because that's what they're told they should do. This isn't new. Consumerism has been lambasted since the 60s and 70s.
"Ahh you look sad today, I know what will cheer you up! Lets go shopping!"
"I got a lot of overtime pay, lets go shopping!"
A country based on nothing but consumption can only consume until the money runs out. (Or the money printed becomes worthless)
But things are changing. Everyone can feel it on the wind. There's a pulse everywhere, in protests and world markets that something is wrong. Even if most cant quite put their finger on it. Im not talking about the obvious, like europe.
Changes about the fundamental underpinnings of how the world and its people operate.
I think that's why we had the "tea party", the occupy wall street, the arab spring and all the rest.
How else can you explain global riots and protests? It's not just anger at the bankers and anger at governments. It's anger at the whole system.
“In 1941 a group of psychiatrists at the Tavistock Clinic saw that the right questions were asked in Parliament in order to secure the means to try new measures. As a result they were asked to join the Directorate of Army Psychiatry, and did so as a group.” –Tavistock Institute
They wind you up because they know what makes you tick. Tavistock Clinic studied shellshock (post-traumatic stress) in WWI but switched to developing psychological warfare in 1922. Rather than helping traumatized soldiers, it calculated their breaking points. Tavistock shock doctrine now permeates global life. Their social engineers are a Who’s Who: Freud, Jung, Adler, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Edward Bernays, Eric Trist, A.K. Rice, Eric Miller, Aldous Huxley, R.D. Laing, and more.
Tavistock sent German-born psychologist, Kurt Lewin, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945 to establish the Research Center for Group Dynamics in the US. Lewin is the founder of ‘social psychology.’ The Center moved to the University of Michigan in 1948 where it became the Institute for Social Research, and continued to co-opt legitimate psychosocial research and exploit mass psychology. By then, the original Clinic became part of Britain’s National Health Service.
In 1946, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations split off a policy-making “mother of all thinktanks,” publically claiming to research and direct groups and organizations while it continued massive covert operations in social engineering. The thinktank registered as a charity in September 1947, in London, England. It devised and spread interdisciplinary models of Group Relations and training in management, administration and sociopolitics. Promoting creativity and organizational policy, it remains an influential intelligence organization tied to MI6, CIA, Project Paperclip German scientists, Rockefeller Foundation, and cryptocracy.
Again, you Americans have no idea what is happening to your country and why it is happening.
Time to wake up, Neo.
Do you still believe there is no 250 year plan in action ?
Aldous Huxley, yeah that's right.
Mr. Brave New World (Order) Aldous Huxley.
Annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum.
He approves of our new order of ages.
Are you assuming Huxley wrote BNW as an advocate of the techniques outlined? Reading BNW Revisited tells me otherwise, he was afraid that the things he wrote about were coming true.
Georgia Guidestones
yes, youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oc_Etr_LwI
quick!
give dr_frankenfurter a turkey sandwich and a beer!
see if he'll STFU for a while!
maybe give him a nice pickle to suck on, too...
The matrix permeates all parts of American life,
business processes, decision making, group dynamics, corporate identity, advertising, the display and presentation of lifestyles, this is all psychologically thought through.
Nothing is coincidental there.
America was deeply religious, a bastion of freedom.
And the oligarchs, especially the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers and yes, Her Majesty the Queen, thought that this cannot stand.
So since they had failed twice at introducing a central bank (the surest way to destroy the morale of a people), and only succeeded at the 3rd attempt, they thought that instead of direct confrontation it would be better to take the longer but more promising approach of so-called "subversion by fabian socialism".
Subversion through baby-steps, bit by bit, over the course of a century, with the help of mass psychology techniques.
The guy who started it all was Gustave LeBon.
When the oligarchy took notice of his books, they immediately realized, what gems they were holding in their hands in order not only to secure their power, but to expand it.
//America was deeply religious, a bastion of freedom//
Why cede bits of yourself to the omnipotent State or omnipotent paternalistic God?
Many successful authoritarian states try to banish religion in order to replace it with the State, this should tell you something.
A sovereign individual believes freedom is cannot be legislated nor can it be found in archaic texts. True freedom requires ultimate individual responsibility, we are not ready.
Just remember these are the peple who voted for Barry. Be scared. be very scared...
300 pound black 3 toed sloaths have never moved so fast as they do on Black Friday!
I love Zero Hedge. Thank you Lord, for a place to hear out WTF is going on in the world.
PS: This entire "Black Friday" thing, is a perfect example of the spiritual concept of Samsara; the "Ocean of Illusion". This world, our existance on earth, is the material plane; and all these people have become lost, in the material world.
Our true identity is spiritual in nature, and we come into this plane to have occasional experiences in the material world, (and we are not physical beings having an occasional spiritual experiance).
Religion is the map; spirituality is the territory.
On Black Friday especially, the hungry ghosts make themselves apparent.
Just to give you a little hint about what Mr. LeBon already elicited in 1895:
1. The masses cannot be persuaded and convinced by logical argument, but only by emotional argument
2. Masses sometimes act unselfishly, on occcasion even virtuously or heroically, but often then in exaggeration
3. The mass is impatient and domineering
4. It can become very ruthless and brutal, way overshooting in scale the potential of a single person, and, with appropriate leadership, can be prepared for revolution
5. Basic beliefs of the mass only change very slowly
6. Moral verdicts of the mass are independent of (social) origin or intellect of its members
7. The mass bases its verdicts on jumping to conclusions by falsely generalizing anecdotal evidence (false deduction)
8. Its beliefs quickly start to become quasi-religious dogmas and are often based on wishful thinking
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It is arguable that the fascist theories of leadership that emerged during the 1920s owed much to Le Bon's theories of crowd psychology. Indeed, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf drew largely on the propaganda techniques proposed in Le Bon's 1895 book.
In addition, Benito Mussolini made a careful study of Le Bon's crowd psychology book, apparently keeping the book by his bedside.
Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, was influenced by Le Bon and Trotter. In his famous book Propaganda he declared that a major feature of democracy was the manipulation of the mass mind by media and advertising.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon
"Competative shopping" is what the news calls using pepper spray to break a line?
I have never and will never participate in black Friday. Is it any womder things are falling apart? Look what people have become.
This kind of nonsense will fade as more people shop online. I'm with you guys. If I don't need it right fucking now and/or it isn't food, tobacco or spirits, I wouldn't set foot in a walmart or mall.
At last... these shoppers may actually be stupider than the mainstream media fuck-tards reporting on them... maybe...
The truth is they aren't worth saving. Most of them could not survive 3 days with the power going out, But you can believe when the dollar collapses, these are the people who will be going through your trash looking for scraps and knocking on your door begging for Hot Pockets and diet cherry soda. And when you suggest they need to do some yard work to earn it that Hot Pocket, they will try to take it by force, as if they are entitled.
Trickle-Down Tyranny -- Why Ordinary People in Positions of Local Power Are Adopting Tactics of Tyrants
By
Mike Adams
opednews.com
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When I read a story yesterday about an 89-year-old woman being water-boarded by nursing home staff over an argument about ice cream, I knew something terrible was amiss across the American landscape. Spontaneous acts of tyranny have been cropping up lately like cancer tumors: a food tyrant in Nevada raids a farm picnic and orders everyone to destroy their food; student protesters in California get pepper-sprayed by thuggish cops who clearly enjoy causing pain and suffering; and now nursing home staffers torture their own residents using techniques borrowed from Guantanamo Bay.
I watched all this with a sense of sadness and disgrace for the human race. And then a realization hit me like a sledgehammer...
People are only following by example . " ....
what else do you expect from the dumbed down masses, sheesh!
After seeing this disgusting display, the USA deserves to collapse. Clean the shitty slate and start anew.
Walmart and its parking lot are too dangerous for my taste. I stopped going there long ago when I was threatened to be "beaten to death" by someone who jumped in front of me in line. Old Sam Walton lived in a different time then now when they really need armed police in their stores and parking lot. It's a jungle now.
Mongoloid behaviour?
Nope, competitive shopping
I dunno. Asking me to mock humankinds present condition with you
is a bit of a stretch. I don't identify with you either.
In fact, I think you're the bad guy for vicariously
watching things die, so to speak. Remember that
you reap what you sow, and no matter how strong
the urge to laugh at fat people it's actually poor
show to do so. Above all, there remains the golden
rule, as solid as physical gold is sound finances,
it being sound spiritual finance.
Judgement day. You have yours, God has his (and Hers, momma don't take no mess)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLRQvK2-iqQ
George Carlin
When there is no morality at the top of our system, we should expect even less at the bottom!
+1 RAY...
Product of a bubble economy. Useless, zombie consumers whose sole purpose in life is material possessions. Does that sound like the profile of someone that creates economic growth or destroys it? Even if there was some miracle that solved all the geo-political-fiscal problems, what do you do with these people?
When the SHTF, these are the types of animals you will need to defend yourself from.
Note to self: Buy more ammo... LOTS more.
Alright! Wal-Mart-Fuck-Tards!
The moronic, idiot Amerikan materialistic, consumption public at their best...
As their jobs and economy sled off the cliff...
Thanks to the same Wall Street and corporate whores they are supporting economically with their devalued Bernanke Bucks...
Wait until rationed health care kicks in.
I don't go to sales, they are not dignified, I am, and what's on sale is generally not worth swapping for my soiled hanky.
WOW - outragous ! !
Pity the Occupy Wall Streeters don't have the same passion about their savings/income as the Occupy Wal-Marters have about their spending/discounts.
The US would be on clean-up duty now, AFTER the revolution.
ZHers sounding a bit superior in this thread. I guess ZHers are too good to own a TV, computer, or X-Box (whatever the **** that is) and have never been in a scuffle their whole lives. Sink me! It's just not done Chauncy!!
I have never been to a Black Friday sale either, but now I regret it and next year if I'm still around I'll be first in line. Sounds like a rip-roarin time.
And you came to this conclusion exactly how?
Hmm, the post by element could lend itself that one or two do.
She learned this was satisfactory conduct from Occupy UC Davis cops.