I notice a kind of self-contentment forming around having the privilege to avoid Black Friday shopping. Before you find comfort in your status for being able to avoid it, think on what compels the rest of us to participate: (1) low cost, (2) a desire to participate in the good life promoted through various circulated media means.
Are the shoppers, then, those who we should really be lampooning, criticizing or distancing ourselves from then? But what of those who encourage, stoke and stir people to want such objects and those who disproportionately create economic conditions which force us to compete with one another and treat each other with such little regard? How are they implicated? I will let you decide.
Bearer of Pity 