Black Friday is nuts. I will not be shopping on Black Friday or Shabby Saturday. If we refused to go out and shop, then corporate America would not force employees to work under such horrid circumstances.
If you have to go out tomorrow - treat the retail workers especially well and tip the restaurant servers extra and be sure to say "Thank you."
Nov. 24, 2016
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A New Kind of Obedience
"Like many, I try to reconcile myself to these daily humiliations through militancy over pressing issues. But that always seems like just another diversion from the emptiness of it all. Is it our pursuit of happiness through conspicuous consumption that is at stake?
"Is happiness a value that we can find within ourselves or must we try to purchase or acquire it? In this pursuit of happiness, what if it is really me, my soul, and the very essence of my existence that is at stake?" (1.)
"Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object".
HEGEL, Introduction to Philosophy of History (1852)
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve." ERICH FROMM, Man for Himself, (1947)
(1.) Captured from a source that I cannot put my fingers on at the moment. If this is your image and your words - please let me know so that I may credit you. Thanks.
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