Since tomorrow is supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year, all bad attitudeans might find it helpful to take time to stop for a moment of quiet reflection with Reverend Billy, Pastor of the Church of Stop Shopping. If anyone chooses to convert, we offer up one of Reverend Billy’s action plans of intervention for quiet resistance against the evils the church exposes. If you’ve got the bandwith [dial up needn’t apply], watch Reverend Billy preach against Starbucks’s evil corporate culture. Friends, feel that power!

A seminal Action in our resistance against consumerism. Enter the Wal Mart or big box store singly or in small groups, grab a shopping cart and you are ready. You don’t announce this Action, although sometimes whirlers wear official “Whirl Mart” shirts.

Don’t put anything, nothing, into your cart. Push it into the aisles of the store, not gesturing or talking, just look straight ahead. Eventually join in a line of your fellow empty carts, but don’t say hi to anyone. Keep your zen-like non-shopping concentration. If someone cuts your line by coming from a side aisle (mothers with kids get right-of-way) then the line breaks and reforms like the proverbial worm. Lines can become independent for a time, but they usually join up again somewhere down the line. There is scripted goal. The arrival is the journey.