I really dig how the real meaning of Black Friday is lost on the masses that chant its refrain. A little introspection into the term would allow you to realize it’s what retailers refer to ‘in the black’, as in financially sound. It’s an accounting term, shortened to whip-up some snappy jargon. We be the robbery, or whatever. But as you pass the tablets down from Sinai you find yourself with some zoolatrists talking yer ears off ‘bout what is what and you’re like lost.

Anywho, this shit shifts and now we find ourselves with some new newness and everyone’s talking about Cyber Monday like it matters. Really, it’s just everyone wants to be first (king of the phrase mountain) in putting their trap-stamp on a term that’ll probably fade out into the next millenia. But we have to deal with it now… Because there’s nothing on TV and you’re probably wondering what the fuck I’m talking about. Anyway…

When we say Black Friday and everyone pulls a little tighter on those Liberal Guilt™ horse blinders we’re actually talking about something good. Yet when Cyber Monday comes around everyone blows up that poseur-tech blowup doll they keep stashed for when they doodle with the HTML on their MyFace page. Beam a little bit inward, good cyber folk, because we all know the verbal meaning of cyber is far more telling than some online retailers would like to admit.

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