The Joy of Christmas

There was a death yesterday in a Wal-Mart in N.Y. where 2 000 people busted the doors down at opening time, rushed in and trampled a 32 year old seasonal employee. Other employees were trying to help and started to get trampled as well. Even a pregnant women was injured. When the man was dead the shoppers continued to stream through the doors and step over his body. There was also a shooting incident in California in a Toys R' Us store, there were two people arguing about a toy and suddenly shots went off and two people were killed!
My question is what the hell is wrong with people?! It's the season of joy, giving, sharing and family. What the hell is little Johnny going to think if he received the last Elmo Live on the shelves for Christmas, but his Daddy is in prison because he shot two people to get it. Or if little Suzy finds out that her Mommy participated in stomping a man to death to get that special doll that was on sale? I'm pretty sure these kids, and people receiving these gifts would rather not get anything at all, if they knew that it resulted in death.
Disgusting.
What is happening to the North American society? What is wrong? Needless killing over unimportant, mass produced, consumer targeted, meaningless objects. I'm with William Morris on this one, lets go back to the middle ages, take joy in our lives, in our work (minus the peace work for women, and bad working conditions in the guilds) I think what would be best for our society is a complete down fall, back to the land, manual labour, no electricity, with more community and farming, less advertising and technology.