WTF?

Did you see the footage on the news of the "Black Friday" crowds?
Women and children being knocked down and trampled, grown men ending up on the floor in the isle fighting... What does this say about our society?
I have never felt the need to shop on "Black Friday". I have, however, worked a couple of them as a clerk at Wal Mart. That is where my bumper sticker came from: "I believe in hell: I work in retail".
Do these people not realize that they are killing themselves to get things that their children want, but those things will end up broken or at the bottom of the toybox within months, and the kids will be screaming for something else??

If I ever get this materialistic, please just shoot me.

My son is pretty oblivious to advertising, and the latest "trends". Granted, he is only 7, but he is very sentimental, and very independent. He likes and wants what he wants, no matter what other people have. More often than not, he wants very simple things.
I hope he never changes.