Black Friday Bacchanalia

What does it mean to be an American? Though asked again and again no one to date has come up with a sufficient answer. What is the missing link that connects such a wide divergent people? Is it our love for democracy? How about rugged individualism? Of course there is always our practicality, if it works go with it. Somehow I doubt any of these traits can fully describe our commonality. So again I ask, what does it mean to be an American?

I think the answer lies somewhere in that perverted and disgusting bacchanalia we witnessed yesterday called “Black Friday”. We are consumers. I believe it was Woody Allen who stated best and I paraphrase, you want to foment revolution? Close down the malls.