On the fourth Thursday of every November families come together to feast, socialize, and most importantly give thanks for everything they’ve received the past year. The following Friday is the day known as Black Friday. This day is where all the giving of thanks is thrown into the trash and replaced with two middle aged women fighting over the last toaster that’s half-off regular price in Wal-Mart. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year which comes immediately after thanksgiving, where people fight over mediocre deals not long after giving thanks to everything in their lives. What would Thoreau say? As a consequence of Black Friday people again seem to lose track of what is important amidst a sale sign. (Henry David Thoreau 20), “ Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes not of our life, and may be stripped off here and there without fatal injury; our thicker garments, constantly worn, are our cellular integument, or
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Black Friday is the perfect opportunity for all of the same things to be sold at once without question. In stores all around the world you find products that are made in groups of hundreds and thousands of the same thing to be sold. The replication of the clothing, furniture, and gifts takes away from the personal value of each item because it is not one of a kind. Thoreau gives an example of trends (Henry David Thoreau 21), “The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.” This is an example of exactly how trends work. A person with somewhat of a social status wears something insignificant and is praised by all because that is how companies sell their products. This method works every time undoubtedly and the trend often fades within a matter of weeks if not days, while a factory dispenses the items for days like Black Friday with
Black Friday is the perfect opportunity for all of the same things to be sold at once without question. In stores all around the world you find products that are made in groups of hundreds and thousands of the same thing to be sold. The replication of the clothing, furniture, and gifts takes away from the personal value of each item because it is not one of a kind. Thoreau gives an example of trends (Henry David Thoreau 21), “The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.” This is an example of exactly how trends work. A person with somewhat of a social status wears something insignificant and is praised by all because that is how companies sell their products. This method works every time undoubtedly and the trend often fades within a matter of weeks if not days, while a factory dispenses the items for days like Black Friday with