Anti-shopping
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How was ‘Black Friday’ for you? Mark Morford takes an amusing look at shopping in Red, White And Banana Republic.
<q>Tis apparently the season that right about this time a decidedly bitter and lugubrious media offers up the murky declaration that Thanksgiving weekend retail sales were not quite the all-out mind-blowing ass-spanking high-fiving wallet- draining Visa-maxing orgiastic bonanza retailers had hoped and man oh man aren’t you the guilty one, oh heartless unspending consumer.</q>
Instead of shopping, you could take part in Whirl-Mart: ritual resistance at your local superstore.
<q>The ritual consists of interested humans arriving at a predetermined Wal-Mart at 12 noon on the first Sunday of every month and proceeding to push empty shopping carts slowly and silently through the aisles. …</q>
There’s photos, flash videos and some documentation on spending and shopping … “Our silent energy and empty carts subtly invade the cathedral of capitalism”.
On the bright side, SatireWire points out With More Time to Shop, the Unemployed Should Boost Holiday Sales…
<q>In Washington, President Bush is not taking any chances. During his weekly radio address on Saturday, he urged America’s unemployed to do their “patriotic duty” and not to seek full-time work until January.</q>