Thanksgiving Nonsense and Black Friday Zombies

Okay, here we go.
First off, Thanksgiving.

As a celebration of the harvest of the food you've been growing all summer long, I get it.  It's a celebration of all the things that you and your family/clan have accomplished over the growing season.
But that older meaning and tradition has kind of gone to Hell in a Handbasket with the fact that none of us are growing our own food anymore
 yeah, not so much anymore (not that serfs got to eat the food they grew...)
 this is as far as we go to get our food now-a-days.  We (westernized, modernized culture) don't have the respect for our food and all the hard work it took to grow it.  The idea of a garden of a field is no longer magical.  We don't respect nature anymore because now we can stick our paws into it and change things.

Okay, and that's my reason for why Thanksgiving is about getting people together and impressing them with how fancily you've decorated your house, and that the most exciting thing you get to do is to gorge yourself on food (because our culture doesn't do that every day anyways??)

And don't even get me started on Black Friday - a whole phenomenon dedicated solely to buying things.  How shallow is that?
   
 

Really guys?
Is a hundred dollars off of a TV that you don't need in the first place really worth it?  Some thirty-four year old Walmart employee died because he got trampled by a mob of sale-minded shoppers.  Is a human life worth anything you can buy at a store?

"They pushed him down and walked all over him," Damour's sobbing sister, Danielle, 41, said. "How could these people do that? " says a news article I've linked to. 

That's insane.  Is the need to save money that important?
 this is from a new zombie movie that's coming out.  They're swarming like ants around something sweet and sticky - I can't help being reminded of the Black Friday shoppers.  The Black Friday Zombies.
 enough said.