response to the walmart incident

My thoughts to the walmart incident when having a first reaction made me review everything we've learned in this course. All this talk about how the american way of life is viewed just keeps becoming more familiar to me along time. Matierialism is something that we havent fully talked about so far, but is often brought up or is connected to what we discuss. but it played a huge role in what caused the whole thing. it showed what people will do to be one of the first to get a hand on the newest thing out there. To me i believe the worst effect of not being able to purchase a television, is that u would be forced to keep your original one. Those people ran around wrecklessly as if they were apart of something big and life-changing. Someone in my course mentioned something funny during class-discussion that i didnt even think about based on the incident. he said that something like this shows how desperate americans are to these bargains due to the fact that they were able to live with their being a part of a killing so that they can in the end win the reward of being able to purchase something. another person shared his question of, how can someone go home and watch the nightly news to see on it the face of the person u just helped to kill on the tv u got because of it. i think that the behavior shown at that sales event by those people fit the description or look that i would automatically expect from them based on relations to american movies and shows.