Ken Connor: Attention Walmart shoppers: Why do so many Americans exhibit so little concern for their neighbor?

The Center for a Just Society carries this commentary by Ken Connor who writes: 

If actions speak louder than words, what do recent events at a New York state Walmart say about the state of American culture? On “Black Friday,” two thousand people burst through the doors of a Walmart store in Long Island at five a.m., trampling an employee to death in a mad dash to get to sale items before the person next to them. Signs of America’s rampant consumerism have existed for decades, but this tragedy takes the cake.

This tragedy points to the selfishness of the human heart and demonstrates that greed is not confined to the scions of Wall Street . . . How did we get to this point in “the home of the brave”? Why do so many Americans exhibit so little concern for their neighbor? . . .