SHOPPING
Channel: Corneilius Crowley
Date: 26/11/2013

Black Friday! Black Monday!  Sad! So Sad!

"I don't like shopping, I prefer swapping
things I have made myself, for things I could really use...."

Why can't barter sit alongside the dominant economics, part of a more holistic sense of economics?

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The sadness inherent in the Black Friday shopping tragedies, in that those 'accidents' and others, are avoidable 100%. My heart goes out to those who have been adversely affected. And there are many folk who look at this and are dumbfounded or dismissive or quite caustic in their view of the people they watch scrambling, rioting and 'competing' for a bargain. All to easy to dehumanise these people, as certain media tends to, and deliberately miss the point.

 It's a matter of conditioning, social deprivation (an outcome of extreme inequality with regard to wealth), marketing that uses advanced psychological techniques learned from studying manipulative damaged people, and a host of other social factors as well as the personal part each individual plays in this drama.

It's sad, and it's also revealing : for without understanding such a phenomenon, it becomes all too easy to dehumanise those people, and that's a slippery road indeed, entirely downhill.

If social forces encourage a large number of people to push through a small aperture to get some adrenalined excitement of getting a 'great deal' with what little cash they have, so that those social forces can entrench their power, who are and what is the real problem?