Wal-Mart Employee Dies in Hobbesian Frenzy

"A Hobbesian frenzy," it was called, referring to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death reads the headline in the New York Times article.

A Hobbesian frenzy. Thomas Hobbes wrote: "The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

The young employee, from a temp agency, was Jdimypai Damour, only 34 years old, God rest his soul in peace. From the article:

A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York was trampled to death by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a Hobbesian frenzy.

The article is a nightmare to read. Crowds lined up all night stampeded through the doors to the holiday sale, Black Friday sale at Wal-Mart, trampling anything in their way.

I have said all along that in this transit we will be re-thinking our attitude toward money. There are so many thoughts when you read an article like this. A temporary employee, so desperate for work that he takes a job like this. People pushing the doors off the hinges. Lining up at 9 pm the night before. Is it the economy that people would line up for such a sale, or greed, or what?

Hobbesian frenzy? David Bordwell uses this phrase in his blog on cinema.

Cheang Pou-soi’s Dog Bite Dog: This tale of a hired killer from Thailand and the raging young cop who pursues him presents a world in Hobbesian frenzy, with all against all. The most unrelentingly violent Hong Kong film I’ve seen in years...

Quotes from Thomas Hobbes

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Words are the money of fools.

Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book Leviathan, according to wikipedia, established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.

In the article you also read that the police were called away from the scene to go to Best Buys and Circuit City, also having problems.

All this for a television set? A new ipod?

What on earth has happened to our social contracts?

Social contract describes a broad class of republican theories whose subjects are implied agreements by which people form nations and maintain a social order. Such social contract implies that the people give up some rights to a government and other authority in order to receive or jointly preserve social order.

And this on the following the terrorist attacks that have stunned Mumbai this week.

There is a lot of frenzy associated with this transit. Pluto has now entered Capricorn, and so the big changeover begins. Stay calm and cool. Get a reading if you need some direction. And let's pray for GOOD changes.

Frenzied shoppers even disturbed the work of police trying to give CPR.

New Moon in Sagittarius for Thanksgiving

NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS, THANKSGIVING DAY
November 28 - the day we've all been waiting for: PLUTO ENTERS CAPRICORN to stay there until 2023
URANUS TURNS DIRECT AT PISCES, November 28


Fantastic energy!!

We have already seen the beginnings of Pluto breaking down the Capricorn structures of finance and government, and we look forward to their re-building - with the sort of faith that Sagittarius brings, appearing as it does in the dark of winter. Capricorn also rules difficult tasks and challenges. With Uranus opposing Saturn ON election day, could what is happening be more obvious?

Now we have a NEW MOON IN SAGITTARIUS, which rules the law, attitudes, beliefs, YOUR attitudes and beliefs (just a reminder ;-)), honesty, and also honorable behavior -- and the faith, idealism and enthusiasm we need to accomplish anything. The archer points toward the deepest meanings of life, and generosity of spirit and community. What we need to have at all times, symbolized by its appearance at the darkest time of the year. When we want to gather together ... "Let your light so shine…"

Let Thanksgiving be a time to remember the strength of joining together, and the attitude of gratitude. It is one holiday that we have not managed to commercialize. With Pluto going in to Capricorn, and as we watch the banking failures, it's a time to realign your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes about money. What it can buy and what it can't. (It can buy a house, not a home. It can buy a watch, not time ... and so forth.)

So here we have a New Moon, the time to sow the seeds for NEW - new attitude, hope, faith and honesty.

Pluto, the planet of death and rebirth, revolution, transformation and rehabilitation will enter Capricorn which rules structure - like our body's skeletons, and the worldly infrastructures that hold us together and get us around. No coincidence that President-elect Obama has talked of improving these.

The sky happenings at this time just BEG you to believe what you already know -- that life is what you THINK it will be; that your attitudes and beliefs determine the outcome. And BEG you to get rid of what isn't working, including your beliefs. (If you don't, Pluto will!) It's a good time to look at your "projections" - and remember that "we despise most our own faults in others." It's a call (with the help behind it) to BE the change you want to see in YOUR world, and in THE world.

All you have to do ... is to change.

Hmmm

QUOTES FOR THIS TIME, all from Mohandas Gandhi:

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Ready for some changes. Here they come, ready or not.

For a reading on how best to use this fantastic energy in your life, email me at sdunn@susandunn.cc .

I am grateful you you, my blog readers, and to my clients and supporters and all those who are part of my community. Happy Thanksgiving!


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You Learn (Alanis Morissette) From a Pluto Transit

Be as a child, reading under the light of the Full Moon, if that is the only light you have.

Your theme song for this Pluto Transit - You Learn, by Alanis Morissette:



She recommends biting off more you can chew.

For peace during the more difficult times:



And get a massage while you're listening to it. Be patient with your transformations and other people's. It's all for the best.