Everything, Will Be Fine, As Long As I Get Mine, First!

    It seems, it's that time of year again, no I don't mean Thanksgiving, because the truth is a lot of the retailers in this country simply ignore that particular holiday except of course,  various grocery stores and other types of food markets. Christmas, basically starts right after Halloween, indeed I saw my first Christmas, commercial November first. I have to admit we started decorating for Christmas,  before  Thanksgiving, but only because my wife as to work on Thanksgiving, therefore we had no choice. I love the basic Christmas, traditions, I'm no  Scrooge,  by any means but their is one Christmas, tradition that has developed in the last ten years or so that I will never understand and that is this retail Christmas Tradition called,  Black Friday.
    Would someone please explain this to me? What is this madness? Tell me, what is this incessant motivation people seem to possess that will literally, make them camp out in a retail parking lot for at least a week just to possibly save 200 dollars  or so on a computer or maybe a big screen TV? I saw one of these retail buzzards, on the news, now get this he goes into a Walmart,  and buys a tent, sleeping bag a heater a small grill, oi lamps food, and by the time he pays for everything he spent 300 dollars but he's doing all this camping out for a whole week because on Black Friday, if he gets in the Walmart,Target, or Best Buy door before those of us who are sane in this country he might save 200 dollars but he already spent 300 dollars in camping gear to accomplish this. Keep in mind there are still a good number of people who may have to camp out if the live in New York or New Jersey, and still don't have power or a house to even live in as a result of the after math of Hurricane Sandy, but this guy spent money to camp out in a parking lot for a week.
    I just don't get it. You can go on the Internet right now and shop,  until you find the best price on almost anything you could possibly want but this guy and a lot of others just like him prefers to camp out in a parking lot for a week. One person said,  he really wanted to be the first person in the door at one of the big retail places, to be the first,  to get his big screen TV. He said, "everything will be fine as long as I get mine first!" Keep in mind that just a few years ago, a Walmart, employee, got trampled to death because too many people wanted to be the first person in the door to get a big screen TV or computer. I am at this point compelled to ask my self, what's wrong with these people? What's wrong with this country?
    The Bible,  describes a problem in Revelation, 3:17 that seems to apply to many, in America, today. I realize placed in proper context, this passage is talking about the church  at Laodicea, but I think America has the same problem this church had. The passage reads as follows;"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor and blind and naked." Many in America, have forgotten what it means to be thankful but I'll bet people in New York or New Jersey could tell them a lot, about being thankful. Look, I 'm all for Christmas, what I'm not all for is unnecessary greed which is clearly on display when people would rather camp out in some cases in cold weather just to get some electronic device be fore some one else does but apparently,   in this country for many tis the season to be stupid! As always, my friends, these thoughts remain, just, some words, to think on.