A Sign of the Times: Black Friday Madness

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

This is a sign of the times. It could be representative of moral and social decay, or it could be as a result of brain-washing and distraction by design, eg capitalism, and its henchmen, consumerism and advertising, constantly bombarding the senses and messing with people's heads. Or it is purely emblematic of the distribution of wealth in today's world, where so many have so little next to so few who have so much.

It's probably all three. Today, getting a simple bargain can almost turn into a life and death struggle. Sad.

Madness in a California mall (some swearing)
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Zombie Apocalypse: Black Friday
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Interesting comparison: Black Friday 1983 Vs Black Friday today
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[Foxie Loxie]

Have we been brainwashed or WHAT??? :facepalm: I noticed that the Thanksgiving Day Parade was all about getting us ready to BUY for Christmas! :laugh::banplease:

[uzn]

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[avid]

Inundated with ‘black friday’ sales pitches, extended to next week, sadly had to buy stuff to accommodate my next-door builders asap, do you think they will pass their BF trade deals on to me, no way. I will demand receipts.... I feel ripped off, but need their local support, so will grind teeth and slowly reel back via snagging issues. Women on their own are taken advantage of, and he is my neighbour!!! Hopefully, we can resolve and live harmoniously, so disappointing as my parents were his folks’ best friends.
Thinking positively...., but sad that my ‘friends’ have been greedy 😢

[starlight]

Sadly our world is consumed with greed. I wish it wasn't so. :cry:

As Jim Carrey stated "I wish everyone could get rich & famous, and have everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see it is not the answer."

[Bill Ryan]

Sadly our world is consumed with greed. I wish it wasn't so. :cry:

As Jim Carrey stated "I wish everyone could get rich & famous, and have everything they ever dreamed of, so they can see it is not the answer."

Exactly. We become obsessed with tangibles... as a substitute for when the infinitely more valuable INtangibles seem inaccessible, or non-existent.

[Bill Ryan]

Interesting comparison: Black Friday 1983 Vs Black Friday today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=623Oga9NPvE

This screenshot may be worth contemplating, from 2:00 onwards in that video.

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[East Sun]

This shows how dumb-ed down we have become.
We, who know, need to stop the ******** beginning now

They, the young in our society, are stupefied beyond belief.
We owe them an answer even though we are not the cause of their problem.

[dynamo]

...
We owe them an answer even though we are not the cause of their problem.
Well, we do owe them an answer but we did give them all their values, didn't we?

[raregem]

In the first video, post #1 we see fighting. People were photographing, meandering around or excited to see a fight. Then there were others getting into fighting. Not one person helped to stop the fight. Why is that? It is seen in schools, too.

[ramus]

A quote that strikes at this matter: The poorer we are on the inside the more we have to enrich our selves on the outside.

[Kasia KHTH]

Black Friday There are several later theories about what commemorates Black Friday. The oldest, however, is the feast of 1621, when Puritan colonizers of New England issued a feast to which they invited Indians from the Wampanoag tribe. The event ran in a friendly atmosphere of friendship, but there was a trick behind it. When the atmosphere was relaxed, the colonizers began their slaughter and slaughtered the Indians to their feet.

What commemorates Black Friday - a dark page of US history
When in the 1970s one of the descendants of the Wampanoag tribe wanted to recall this shameful memento at an official government gala, he was prevented from appearing. In Indian reservations in the USA, this day is the Day of Mourning. The rest of the US is hunting cheaper TVs at this time .

[Lunesoleil]

In France, it was today and with you it was the last Friday of November?
I find that indecent after this confinement and these companies forced to wait for the winter thaw?
What business to do when companies that have been prevented from working would , have an interest in participating in Black Friday?
I think the Covid will have been right to exist to sweep away all that is unnecessary in our life.
And in your country, there are still closed companies? In France, restaurants are closed until January 2021, sports halls, discos, so young people have private parties ...
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[rgray222]

Black Friday There are several later theories about what commemorates Black Friday. The oldest, however, is the feast of 1621, when Puritan colonizers of New England issued a feast to which they invited Indians from the Wampanoag tribe. The event ran in a friendly atmosphere of friendship, but there was a trick behind it. When the atmosphere was relaxed, the colonizers began their slaughter and slaughtered the Indians to their feet.

What commemorates Black Friday - a dark page of US history
When in the 1970s one of the descendants of the Wampanoag tribe wanted to recall this shameful memento at an official government gala, he was prevented from appearing. In Indian reservations in the USA, this day is the Day of Mourning. The rest of the US is hunting cheaper TVs at this time .

This story above is a myth and has absolutely no basis in fact. There is another particularly nasty myth that has surfaced that gives a particularly ugly twist to the tradition, claiming that back in the 1800s Southern plantation owners could buy slaves at a discount on the day after Thanksgiving. Though this version of Black Friday’s story has understandably led some to call for a boycott of the retail holiday, it also has no basis in fact.

While these completely fabricated stories make for interesting reads and probably serve as clickbait they are simply not true My guess would be that these stories originated with globalist or their pawns like ANTIFA to discredit and eventually destroy the institutions and credibility of the USA.

The real story behind Black Friday


The true story behind Black Friday, however, is not as sunny as retailers might have you believe. Back in the 1950s, police in the city of Philadelphia used the term to describe the chaos that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving, when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of the big Army-Navy football game held on that Saturday every year. Not only would Philly cops not be able to take the day off, but they would have to work extra-long shifts dealing with the additional crowds and traffic. Shoplifters would also take advantage of the bedlam in stores to make off with merchandise, adding to the law enforcement headache.

By 1961, “Black Friday” had caught on in Philadelphia, to the extent that the city’s merchants and boosters tried unsuccessfully to change it to “Big Friday” in order to remove the negative connotations. The term didn’t spread to the rest of the country until much later, however, and as recently as 1985 it wasn’t in common use nationwide. Sometime in the late 1980s, however, retailers found a way to reinvent Black Friday and turn it into something that reflected positively, rather than negatively, on them and their customers. The result was the “red to black” concept of the holiday mentioned earlier, and the notion that the day after Thanksgiving marked the occasion when America’s stores finally turned a profit. (In fact, stores traditionally see bigger sales on the Saturday before Christmas.)

The Black Friday story stuck, and pretty soon the term’s darker roots in Philadelphia were largely forgotten. Since then, the one-day sales bonanza has morphed into a four-day event, and spawned other “retail holidays” such as Small Business Saturday/Sunday and Cyber Monday. Stores started opening earlier and earlier on that Friday, and now the most dedicated shoppers can head out right after their Thanksgiving meal.

Source: https://www.history.com/news/whats-the-real-history-of-black-friday#:~:text=Back%20in%20the%201950s%2C%20police,on%20that%20Saturday%20every%20year.

[Lunesoleil]

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I wrote an article in 2018 (https://lunesoleil23.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/black-friday-ou-le-vendredi-fou/) specifying that in France that black friday had started in 2014, so that it was relatively recent, but I had received a detailed comment on Facebook on the origins of black friday (vendredi fou) on the days of the black slave trade, knowing the American past and the division between white and black, this comment made sense. 2018 was the start of the yellow vests protests.
Which doesn't tell me if all the shops continue to be closed except for food which was the case in France and since December 1 the shops have reopened, certainly because of the Black Friday postponed by a week .

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[Bill Ryan]

From https://gradesfixer.com/blog/black-friday-history/

What’s The Real History of Black Friday?

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The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy up as much as they could of the nation’s gold, hoping to drive the price sky-high and sell it for astonishing profits. On that Friday in September, the conspiracy finally unraveled, sending the stock market into free-fall and bankrupting everyone from Wall Street barons to farmers.

The most commonly repeated story behind the post-Thanksgiving shopping-related Black Friday tradition links it to retailers. As the story goes, after an entire year of operating at a loss (“in the red”) stores would supposedly earn a profit (“went into the black”) on the day after Thanksgiving, because holiday shoppers blew so much money on discounted merchandise. Though it’s true that retail companies used to record losses in red and profits in black when doing their accounting, this version of Black Friday’s origin is the officially sanctioned—but inaccurate—story behind the tradition.

A Visual History of Black Friday: From Financial Crash to Shopping Mania

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In recent years, another myth has surfaced that gives a particularly ugly twist to the tradition, claiming that back in the 1800s Southern plantation owners could buy slaves at a discount on the day after Thanksgiving. Though this version of Black Friday’s roots has understandably led some to call for a boycott of the retail holiday, it has no basis in fact.

The true story behind Black Friday, however, is not as sunny as retailers might have you believe. Back in the 1950s, police in the city of Philadelphia used the term to describe the chaos that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving, when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of the big Army-Navy football game held on that Saturday every year. Not only would Philly cops not be able to take the day off, but they would have to work extra-long shifts dealing with the additional crowds and traffic. Shoplifters would also take advantage of the bedlam in stores to make off with merchandise, adding to the law enforcement headache.

By 1961, “Black Friday” had caught on in Philadelphia, to the extent that the city’s merchants and boosters tried unsuccessfully to change it to “Big Friday” in order to remove the negative connotations. The term didn’t spread to the rest of the country until much later, however, and as recently as 1985 it wasn’t in common use nationwide. Sometime in the late 1980s, however, retailers found a way to reinvent Black Friday and turn it into something that reflected positively, rather than negatively, on them and their customers. The result was the “red to black” concept of the holiday mentioned earlier, and the notion that the day after Thanksgiving marked the occasion when America’s stores finally turned a profit. (In fact, stores traditionally see bigger sales on the Saturday before Christmas.)

The Black Friday story stuck, and pretty soon the term’s darker roots in Philadelphia were largely forgotten. Since then, the one-day sales bonanza has morphed into a four-day event, and spawned other “retail holidays” such as Small Business Saturday/Sunday and Cyber Monday. Stores started opening earlier and earlier on that Friday, and now the most dedicated shoppers can head out right after their Thanksgiving meal.