This is one small reason why the world hates U.S.
This story outlines something that happens every year somewhere in the states.
I’ve been in areas of the world where people are crushed to death in stampedes to get food, basic necessities of life, maybe saved from an attack. Here, we stampede and kill people for stuff. Just everyday stuff. Crap. Shiny shit. It wasn’t a stampede for a buy one, get one free on bread and milk, but for consumer electronics, toys, stuff that really doesn’t matter.
There are many reasons I have gotten fed up with serving the people of this country in different forms, this being one of them. The people I serve don’t care that I do, don’t care that anybody does, as long as they get their non-essential stuff to show other people.
I don’t know, it makes me sad to know that there are thousands of people giving up everything in their lives to make this country safe, so the population can remain dumb, ignorant, and complacent so they can focus on shiny shit. This is even more pronounced in a time when people should be saving the money they have to support their futures and that of their families instead of being taken over by the rush of anxiety because they hope they get one of those Sony’s for 1/3 off before they run out of them.
As much as I love my country, I really just can’t stand the people in it much anymore, along with the fucked perspectives of what’s important.
