For some reason, the queues in front of stores on Black Friday made me think of the stores’ intestines hanging out. I don’t know why, but it did. From Westgate Shopping Centre to Clearwater Mall, everywhere I looked I saw this vulgar display of consumerism.
There is hardly a better example of our sick hunger for consumables and our corporate slave masters’ willingness to feed it to us than Black Friday. This day has after all blown over to us from the US. like all the other days tailor-made to suit the corporate agenda. Nowadays corporatocracies like the US don’t have to have one soldier’s foot set on foreign soil in order to colonise the country – they just have to culturally capture us, and if we oppose it, we will receive ‘some democracy’ from them in the cowardly form of ‘drone bombs’.
A friend and his wife recently fell on very hard times and I thought of them on Black Friday. I remembered what he told me the last time I saw him. A good Samaritan had given them a small amount of cash, R200 or R300. They had to use it wisely. My friend said he felt like a king walking through some Pakistani store. He did pick two “luxury items” though, a small piece of cheese and three loose candles. “We couldn’t afford it, but I knew how much my wife loved it. It made me feel like her husband again,” he said.
I wonder where he was on Black Friday.
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