Disposable Culture: Black Friday rules the day?

In the follow-up to Black Friday, the biggest day of the year for discount shopping, America's crazy Christmas sales are in a full swing. But isn't it time we said "No" to a buying mania which drives us to empty the shops in a frenzy of bargain-hunting? ­RT's Big Apple correspondent, Lori Harfenist, asks people in New York why are they obsessed with purchasing stuff they can't possibly really need.<br /><br />RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com <br />RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews