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Copyright © 2014 Marco Alexandre de
Oliveira
Thanksgiving Day is a day of
giving thanks, a day of giving, a day of receiving, a day of sharing, a day for
celebrating the harvest, a day for remembering the hard labor, a day when differences
were settled between the Indians and American settlers, a holiday, a feast day,
a day when family and friends gather together, a day of counting blessings, a
day of saying grace, a day of eating, a day of drinking, a day when millions of
turkeys are served on platters, a day when millions of lives are sacrificed, a
day when millions of hearts stop beating, a day when gallons of blood are
spilled in fields and factories, a day when pounds of flesh are unceremoniously
devoured on dining tables, a day of increasingly insatiable appetites, a Thursday
followed by Black Friday, a day of shopping, a day of spending, a day of
buying, a day of selling, a day of commercials and advertising, a day of
fantastic promotions, a day of super discounts, a day of mega sales, a day of
big deals, a day when millions of products are sold, a day when millions of
dollars are made, a day when millions of employees are overworked and
underpaid, a day when scores of trees are deforested and acres of land are devastated,
a day when miles of air and sea are polluted, a day when a lot of sense is
lost, a day of credit and debt, a day when economic prosperity fuels ecological
imbalance and social unrest, a day of gratuitous and ungracious excess, a day
of waste, a day wasted, a day of really long lines for incredibly short
satisfaction, a day when empty souls are filled with useless junk, a day of
destructive addiction, a day of obsessive compulsion, a day of mass
consumption, a day when hordes of consumers are consumed by greed and desire, a
day with loads of traffic jams and tons of crowds, a day when swarms of unruly customers
storm the stores, a day of pushing and shoving and fighting over nothing, a day
of mob violence and human stampedes, a day of costly encounters, a day of
tragedies, a sad day, a dark day, a black day, a day when shadows see the light
of day, a day that will ultimately come to an end...
-- November 27, 2014
-- November 27, 2014
Copyright © 2014 Marco Alexandre de
Oliveira
