Maybe the notion of educating the masses needs re-examination...
Posted by Truthserum on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 1:37pm in http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000558_Wal-Mart_shopping_herd_mentality....
Savage Wal-Mart Shoppers Trample Worker to Death
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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, November 28, 2008
There's probably not a better scene that exemplifies American culture today: A 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death by 200 crazed shoppers this morning as they rushed into the store at 5:00 am to cash in on special discounts.
The mob of shoppers reportedly "took the doors off the hinges," injuring three other people in the stampede. They didn't even stop for emergency crews that were later treating the Wal-Mart employee on the scene -- they just kept rushing past, trying to get their share of the Wal-Mart discounts on "Black Friday," the biggest shopping day of the year.
Just how jacked up is American culture, anyway, when rushing to get some shopping done is more important than stopping to pick someone up off the floor and save their life? The herd mentality has taken over. Literally. All the advertising, commercial brainwashing, brand imprinting and the push to get people to own more stuff has led to this insane reality where people think that shopping is the key to happiness, and they're willing to do anything to get it.
Of course, this mentality isn't limited to America, but I think America exemplifies it best when we witness stampeding Wal-Mart shoppers killing a fellow human being.
I suppose now they'll have to post big signs on the Wal-Mart front doors: "Please don't trample employees." Or, better yet, the Wal-Mart employees should just be issued electrified cattle prods, and the shoppers can be corralled into branding chutes where they're branded with ID numbers and fitted with ear tags. This would allow Wal-Mart security cameras to identity which members of the herd are responsible for causing the most death and destruction.
After all, if the people are going to act like cattle, we might as well treat 'em like cattle.
It should be noted here that even though the Wal-Mart shoppers stampeded over a human being, they did not stampede over their coveted consumer electronics or big-screen TVs. No merchandise in the store was harmed in the stampede, which just goes to show you: To the herd, the value of a human life is LESS than the value of consumer electronics.
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to come up with a different concept, something more realistic. "Pockets of santiy comes to mind."
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Blame a government that promises not to let anyone suffer the consequences of their financial irresponsibility. If so many people in America feel entitled to endless spending, isn't it because they are confident that no matter how poor they become, nothing too bad can happen to them or their families? After all, they can rely on other people to pay for their education, their medical care, their retirement, and even their food, clothing and housing if they fall below a certain level of poverty. Why save, then? Why not spend to your heart's content?
>>"There's probably not a better scene that exemplifies American culture today: A 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death by 200 crazed shoppers this morning as they rushed into the store at 5:00 am to cash in on special discounts."
You think that this one isolated mob is representative of everyone in the US? Come on. Consider all the other shoppers that behaved themselves just fine on Friday. THOSE are the average Americans. The reason this story made such big news is that things like this happen only very rarely. I'm sure that the "average American" is just as outraged about this incident as you are.
>>"All the advertising, commercial brainwashing, brand imprinting and the push to get people to own more stuff has led to this insane reality where people think that shopping is the key to happiness, and they're willing to do anything to get it."
You are awfully quick to blame consumerism for all the ills of society. Do you have a problem with free market capitalism, then? Maybe you would rather if there were only two types of bread and three types of beer to choose from, like in Soviet Russia. No extra stuff for anyone, no advertising, no brands. The state, rather than the market, would determine what people need, and would set the prices it deemed to be fair. Do you think people would be happier then?
I'm in a bad mood this morning, so I'm going to tell you that I find you quite irritating. To point out the stampede at Walmart IS NOT THE SAME THING as saying that the whole population behaves in this manner. And, I said nothing about consumerism, although something could be said I suppose.
Puleeze....
It's just a commentary on an event that demonstrates how crazed some of the sheeple are.
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Or did you post the article he wrote? Just curious.
Claire thinking this is a free market is kinda funny. Brainwashing and manipulation that starts from birth is a not free market that I want anything to do with.
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just posted his article. Thought it was interesting.
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>>"Claire thinking this is a free market is kinda funny. Brainwashing and manipulation that starts from birth is a not free market that I want anything to do with."
Let me make myself clear. This is not a free market, but it does share certain features of one. In a free market, there is advertising, there are brands, and sellers will attempt to persuade people to buy their products. Walmart uses freedom of speech to promote it's products, does it not? Is there any reason to think that in a pure free market economy there would not be advertising and black Friday sales? I'd like to hear your rationale on that one. Are you saying that Walmart is using coercion to force people to buy things? Please explain.
that in order to PREVENT sellers from attempting to persuade buyers, the state would have to drastically infringe on people's freedom of speech. A society with no advertising is impossible outside of a totalitarian system.
>>"Just how jacked up is American culture, anyway, when rushing to get some shopping done is more important than stopping to pick someone up off the floor and save their life? The herd mentality has taken over. Literally. All the advertising, commercial brainwashing, brand imprinting and the push to get people to own more stuff has led to this insane reality where people think that shopping is the key to happiness, and they're willing to do anything to get it."
You say that the herd mentality has TAKEN OVER. What does that mean, if not that all or most of Americans have fallen prey to it, that is, that all or most of us would behave in the same way as the stampeding shoppers under similar circumstances?
Regarding consumerism, you can't have it both ways. You can't embrace free market capitalism and then moan and complain about advertising and brands. So which is it, truthserum? Is a free market good, or is it not?
I posted for general interest. I did not say "the herd mentality has taken over." Mike Adams, the author of the article said this.
You been smokin' on the sly?
Naah... you're above all that.
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I assumed those were your words because I wasn't paying attention to the header. Can't use being stoned as an excuse, though.
>>"I did not say "the herd mentality has taken over." Mike Adams, the author of the article said this."
Let me ask you, if you did not agree with the author of this article, why didn't you say so? I am interested in debating with you what you think is so wrong with Americans. Could you please answer just one of the questions I have asked you so far? How about this one:
>>"Do you have a problem with free market capitalism, then? Maybe you would rather if there were only two types of bread and three types of beer to choose from, like in Soviet Russia. No extra stuff for anyone, no advertising, no brands. The state, rather than the market, would determine what people need, and would set the prices it deemed to be fair. Do you think people would be happier then?"
Or this one?
If so many people in America feel entitled to endless spending, isn't it because they are confident that no matter how poor they become, nothing too bad can happen to them or their families? After all, they can rely on other people to pay for their education, their medical care, their retirement, and even their food, clothing and housing if they fall below a certain level of poverty. Why save, then? Why not spend to your heart's content?
Let's get to the heart of the matter instead of dancing around the edges.
I didn't disagree... I merely found it notable.
If you want a debate on Capitalism vs Communism, you'll have to go to a different planet since neither system has been effectively practiced on this one.
(was that evasive enough????)
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Maybe someday you will let me know what you really think so I can argue with you properly ;-)
By the way, I admire your command of the technology. How do you get the bold letters in your text-- and all the emoticons, images and animations? I can't even post a Quicktime file. I'm so lame with that stuff.
I've heard the same thing at a few public hearings on key environmental issues in our area. "Where does she stand, anyway?"
I'm not all that geeky. I have an account on photobucket is all. It's pretty simple to use.
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What else is there to say about the "average" american???.... "Cattle" in stampede mode...Mob mentality.
I hope when the time has come I have found a way to stay out of their path as I hope you and everyone else who have been trying to alert and wake up the rest of the Sleeping Giant.
I love how you find those pics - to interject very cleverly.
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