How do people see how ot live a good and meaningful life?

Fourth draft
Thanksgiving is supposed to be filled with being thankful for the things in your life that make it meaningful. It’s a day when families get together and spend time with each other over food saying how thankful they are for each other. This is the corporate message that most people follow. Thanksgiving is a day for celebration. Though little remember how we took the Indians food and later killed them all. They feed us and gave us shelter and we repay them by wiping them out and driving them off the lands. There is never any consideration or thought given for the terrible things that were done.
After Thanksgiving is Black Friday. A name given to the day for the many sales that goes on. The stores all have record-breaking deals where everyone can start their holiday shopping. People get up early in the morning and wait on long lines that seem to go on forever for a chance to get in the stores and buy things. During this years Black Friday a man was trampled when a "mob of frenzied people" came into a Wal-Mart. No one cared to help him but instead continued to trample him. 4 others were injured and many employees had to fight the mob to keep from being hurt. When they announced that they had to clear the store cause someone had died many complained about being on line forever and continued to shop. I am sad to hear how people have acted. It seems so many people care only about themselves and what things they can buy cheap then anything else. Though you cant fully blame them. Our culture and corporate media has a hand in this as well. I posed a question which asked has people's morals changed and if so what caused it and Sam K. answered that these people are desperately wanting happiness and so look for outside ways to achieve it. I think this is very interesting and very true. Many people now are relaying on material objects to close the gap in side of themselves. They think that money can buy them happiness and many people might agree with this but I for one do not. Money can only fill the gap for so long until there is a bigger need to get the newer and better stuff. You only keep moving on from thing to thing and only really having the illusion of filling the gap. Corporate media feeds people the desire to shop and fill those needs. Every message is about going out and buying things.