And so we went shopping! We so went shopping, in rumbling herdlike elephant masses,
we killed a guy who didn’t get out of the way fast enough. It’s a tragic incident, but by no
means meaningless. Shopping is a religion, and some religions demand sacrifices. The
Wal-Mart employee died for us on Black Friday, but have we stopped to think what his
sacrifice means? Not at all: We’re stampeding right on through to the other side of Christmas.
We aren’t just shopping: We are saving America. … And now that we are officially in a
recession and too tired from shopping to figure anything out, they are making us feel guilty
of murder, which we may well be. But we were just following orders.
-Andrei Codrescu
> And so we went shopping! We so went shopping, in rumbling herdlike elephant masses,
> we killed a guy who didn’t get out of the way fast enough. It’s a tragic incident, but by no
> means meaningless. Shopping is a religion, and some religions demand sacrifices. The
> Wal-Mart employee died for us on Black Friday, but have we stopped to think what his
> sacrifice means? Not at all: We’re stampeding right on through to the other side of Christmas.
> We aren’t just shopping: We are saving America. … And now that we are officially in a
> recession and too tired from shopping to figure anything out, they are making us feel guilty
> of murder, which we may well be. But we were just following orders.
-Andrei Codrescu
-Andrei Codrescu