From my boyhood until 2004, Thanksgiving was America’s sacred holiday and my co-workers and I knew, for we lived on the front line of the consumerist war on our remnant culture, that this was in peril from corporate pressures every year. Every Thanksgiving we wondered if it would be the last during which we would be free of toil on that day. There is a lot about Thanksgiving myth that is false, such as the hidden fact that the Plymouth Colony was a white slavery gulag for 12 “duty” boys who refused to become Christian on their deathbeds even as their Puritan masters urged them to repent their orphaned urge to be free of toil escaped if only by death. This, and the alliance of Master and Heathen to keep the non-religious slaves of pious Christians building a “New Israel in these goings down of the sun” to their work, has been replaced by the false picture of benign gift-giving and bread-breaking among the pilgrims and their savage neighbors.

This said, the giving of thanks, for the good fortune of being delivered to this plentiful land out of the overworked lands of Europe and the slave markets of Africa has long made a fitting theme for a national feast-day. Feast days, as far back as the Saturnalia in Rome and throughout the Middle Ages with its 100-plus feast days, have been methods of mass mind control, pressure valves for venting common passions and the stifling hand of injustice. For instance, in Maryland, slaves were compelled to get drunk on New Year’s week and squander all of their accumulated goods and money in order to make them ripe for an obedience-filled year to come. But, with the concern of the American ruling class having shifted from national identity and security to that of globalist identity and class hegemony, the old idea of America as a special place, a place one should be thankful for living in, has been replaced by the ideal of America as the most voraciously sucking mouth of the global consumerist beast. The signs have been ominous in the workplace these last dozen years.

2004: Most Baltimore Area supermarkets and chains vehemently resisted opening for business on Thanksgiving Day. This was largely due to an unwillingness to pay overtime staffing costs. However, two Baltimore area chains [Mars, now defunct and Shoppers, now struggling to stay in business] advertised that they would be closed so that their employees could have time with their family. Then, the day after Thanksgiving, the word went around the retail food world that the Safeway on East Pratt Street [catering to a hipster elite and Baltimore ghetto food stamp clientele] did 70K in half a day. That was it. Ever since, virtually all Baltimore area supermarkets are open until at least 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving, with hours expanding every year. This is fueled largely by a drive to keep hours consistent with the preferred shopping times of the unemployed elite, who provide the most brand-loyal and quickly spent dollar in the market, the subsidized poverty dollar. Spearheaded by national chain, Safeway and globalist outfits like the Dutch owners of Giant Foods, nearly every American in retail food must work on Thanksgiving.

Compounding the retail food situation is the global company which has taken half of the staff from the retail food industry and reduced their pay—Walmart—that has its employees begin work at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving to set up for the new national holiday, the sacred worship time of The God of Things, Black Friday, beginning at midnight.

Imagine, if you will, the Thanksgiving of a subsistence-level American family, Mom working at Safeway, Dad working at the 7-11, and the daughter working at Walmart. Of course, Thanksgiving is celebrated at Grandma’s house—and as she goes so shall the venerable holiday.

Mom has to work until 3 p.m.

Dad has to work until 6 p.m.

Daughter must report to work at 6 p.m.

This is the blueprint to destroy a nuclear family and finish off the extended family, the family that liberal elites do not care for, for they do not recognize the humanity of a non-dependent, non-college-educated person. Ironically, the people served by the retail food clerk in the afternoon and the retail clerk at midnight, are predominantly elites, either of the college-educated or welfare varieties. Most working-class whites refuse to shop at Baltimore area food retailers on Thanksgiving Day. This will change—and is changing as the semantic morality changes from the top down.

A further pushing of the consumer ethos is exemplified by an educational seminar recently attended by a medical worker I know, who told me, that along with speaking with your hands to a non-English speaker being a Civil Rights violation, that the term “patient” is now regarded as a demeaning appellation for a person under medical care. Rather, according to the Priests and Priestesses of our sick, materialistic society, the only acceptable term for a person under medical care is “consumer.” This term seems to have been used first in the mental health activism branch of our medical system where presumably it would have sounded more pejorative to describe someone as a mental health patient or mentally ill patient than to call them a consumer of mental health services, which is the logical source for mind-control methodology of the future.

Note from DL:

It seems that separation from family and friends, as well as isolation contribute significantly to mental illness. Without googling this to ensure that I am quoting specific studies, a few things come to mind from my readings and experiences over the years. I took a trip to Cuba to interpret for a small faith group, which should be the subject of its own article. However, I remember a woman telling me, “We don’t have much, but we have love.” This struck me as the opposite of my American experience. These Cubans spent a lot of time together.

Overstressing people by manipulating the economy so that there is artificial inflation (Is that an oxymoron?), and one income is no longer adequate to support a family; separating mothers from children via work and daycare; depersonalizing the work environment and making it a high-traffic, multi-tasking, high-speed lane-changing experience, where employees are pressured into an unrealistic pace and factory production-line type of repetitious, mind-numbing routine in which the wage slave will eventually fail physically, mentally and emotionally. This long, forced march continues to have many mental health casualties which may not otherwise have surfaced in saner-for-humans environments. It’s funny—I just typed lifestyles and replaced it with environments in the previous sentence, because I immediately felt the artifice of this materialistic coinage meant to encompass all of the different ways to live which money can buy. The DSM-V, a tome for mental health providers to help them diagnose (hmm, seems the term provider, like consumer, goes together in this ridiculous, ongoing attempt to obscure reality) continues to hone descriptions of many mental illnesses, the quantity, intensity and relatedness of which must surely be a product of our society. The diagnosis of ADHD should be changed to “A child who is no longer allowed to develop naturally as a child but forced to live as an inmate.” The educators who have researched and developed learning theory and come up with a great variety of learning styles are simply struggling to make room for children to actually learn while they move through their penitentiary system. There are certain mental illness diagnoses which are avoided for children as there is a possibility their condition will change as they mature. My favorite diagnosis which I’ve heard applied to children is ODD: Oppositional Defiant Disorder. [1] It’s my opinion that it is not a disorder but an attempt to regain sanity in a society which crushes the spirit. However, for those children who are not able to be reformed through counseling and medication to become conforming members of society, there is always boot camp.

Summary from JL:

Thus, in the Eyes of our Economic God, the greatest honor a human can expect from his nation is to be likened to an overfed and ever-hungry animal on a feedlot, rather than to a person blessed to find himself in a land of opportunity. There is no other logical purpose to this other than national, cultural, familial and personal negation.

1. ODD: Oppositional Defiant Disorder—James is horrified that there is such a diagnosis and suggests that a secret society form, dedicated to rescuing children with this diagnosis and harboring them in a hidden location where they could be husbanded as to potential core of a future colony of real humans.