"Tis' the season to be Jolly"

Its funny how whenever people think of the holidays they assume that everything is just milk and cookies but anyone that braved the mob on black Friday knows that people in this world are not very nice. I went home to Rochester this break and i have learned quite a bit about what society has turned into or perhaps the way i perceived society was too sugar coated to begin with. in class we have brought up on multiple occasions how we have always learned that Americans are the most civilized of societies in the world today. On Black Friday there was much evidence to the contrary. From fist fights over who saw the big screen T.V. first to a little old lady having her jaws broken and dislocated because someone wanted to beat her to the checkout line. Why have we become like some "third-world" countries that resort to physical violence as a form of politics? The answer may as be as simple as the true nature of people remains the same no matter where that person comes from. Greed is one of the "seven deadly sins" and in this case the word "black" which is widely used to represent evil or death is fitting to describe this one crazy day of the year. It is hard to believe this is a season to be Jolly when all the people out shopping are stressed and angry.