Blackest Fragile Friday
Black Friday,
iconic of Climate Fragility,
is designed to transition retail
from red
to black
end of year balance sheets.
Black Friday
is black
good
wealthy
robust
from a competitive corporate perspective.
What feels too seldom noticed,
This capital-acquisition game
is played with ZeroSum win/lose assumptions:
Retail corporations
are more likely to go richly black
as consumer households,
especially marginally surviving households,
urban apartheid neighborhoods,
rural failing family farms,
reach into shallowing pockets
to risk red indebted shortfall,
unhoused lack of holds.
To align our ecopolitical color scheme,
black incorporated economic privilege
is fed by red consumer fragility
as white political privilege
feeds on black and brown
and cooperative rainbow fragility.
One of the ways
we can remember this color scheme,
no paranoid pun intended,
is through a song,
Red and yellow,
black and white,
these are diversely precious
in His Straight White corporate sight
ReIncarnated Capital-Infested God
loves all consumers
of the ZeroSum WinLose
global market world.
This version suffers
from unlyrical challenges,
yet it still has a Black Friday ring
to cash re-registering around us.
The title of this song escapes me.
Was it
He's Got the Whole World in His Corporation
or Shop Til We Drop?
The voracious squirrels must think we're nuts,
especially on Black Friday.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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