Black Friday

Holidays used to be a time to spend with family, to take time off work, watch sports, eat some good food and relax. Of course, for many years now it has become an excuse to buy, buy, buy. And those four days around Thanksgiving, sandwiched with the biggest shopping day of the year in Black Friday apparently are no longer enough ... beyond stores being open on Thursday, is the addition of Cyber Monday to the extended weekend. What does it all mean, beside further reinforcing the notion that citizenship has been supplanted by consumption as the new raison d'etre of being an American ...