So in America we have a national holiday called Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the holiday in which we celebrate being thankful for the things we have and the people we love. In school and in general culture at a young age you are taught that Thanksgiving is the day that the pilgrims and the Indians got together and had a grand feast. Well, the pilgrims did in fact have a feast but it was at a great cost. Indians had been driven off of their own land, murdered, raped and enslaved. They were an extremely successful civilization  that we took a giant shit on. Every country wants its citizens and other countries to only see the good qualities and face of that country. So everyone knows Thanksgiving to be this commercial holiday where everyone frantically buys turkey, ham, cranberry sauce, stuffing mix, vegetables, etc... and has a grand feast with their friends and family or their own rendition of a meal. Everyone celebrates it differently. Every year on facebook, twitter, etc... people will post what they're thankful for. In this moment they appreciate their family members, their friends, their jobs, the area they live in, their house, their car, their animals, their tvs, phones, video games, etc... But beyond those 5 minutes of being thankful for your life it turns into everyone becoming jabba the hut and eating until your pants are suffocating you. And football, a lot of people watch football on Thanksgiving.

The very next day is Black Friday. Black Friday is the day where every business of some kind marks their new and older items to super cheap deals to get everything out of their warehouse to make room for the new items or to dramatically increase impulse sales. Despite the fact that everything is on sale, they sell so many items that they manage to profit off of the holiday regardless. This day is so important to society, that people will camp outside of stores for days just to guarantee being one of the first people in the stores. Some people will even become excessively violent and throw away any morals they previously had in order to secure getting the new PS4, an LCD tv that is on sale, etc.... The same people who were soooo thankful  for what they had and couldn't ask for more are the same people who are behaving like maniacal zombies from shopping hell. At that moment to save $200 you are willing to leave behind any morals and ethical behavior you once previously had.

To some this might not seem like a big deal and personally I don't participate in Black Friday but I do purchase things online for the Cyber Monday type stuff, because I want to avoid these retarded people. This event is so severe that people die and get horribly injured just to save $100 on appliances and such. I understand that we're not all rich and so we like to save money when we can, but to what expense? I value my health, my dignity and respect over money. Money is just a concept that is sort of essential for survival but overall it's just a materialistic thing that will not follow me in my transition from life to death. I don't want to be one of those people who will tear another person down to get the last toy for my annoying spoiled brat kid who is just going to break it after Christmas anyways.

I honestly wish corporations/businesses would take a different approach to the whole Black Friday thing. Maybe something like, you go to the store to pre-order what you want to buy super cheap on Black Friday. They could maybe give you a 2 month window to make your selections and they will tell you how much it will cost now versus how much it will cost on Black Friday. From there, you will be given a number similar to a ticket in a waiting line kind of thing. On Black Friday and the days after, they will serve people in order. The people who ordered things first will be guaranteed what they want over the people who order last minute or not at all. This way, millions of people aren't swarming around a tablet display. If you don't show up on time for your number being called your order is cancelled immediately and the next person gets to go. If they had something like this set up they'd be able to pre-plan how many of a product to have in the store. If everyone is guaranteed the items they want, there's no need to compete over  them and act like complete dipshits. Of course my suggestion has its flaws and I'm sure some sort of chaos riot would take place within that line, but it doesn't need to be a physical line. But you get my idea. If they had an organized manner of doing things, I imagine there would be less chaos and hopefully no more deaths.

What are your thoughts on these holidays? Honestly, as much as I love seeing my family on Thanksgiving, I think holidays are stupid. We celebrate things that are completely unrelated to the holiday and the actual historical truth. Every year we promise we'll be better people and it just seems like we remain the same or even get worse.