This is not my idea, so I don't want any credit for it. 

One of the pastors at my church said in his sermon on Luke 8:36-50 that although Thanksgiving is this great holiday where we gather to give thanks and be appreciative, it is not a true American celebration because we are not thankful the rest of the year.  The truest American holiday is Black Friday, when we drop all masks and pretentions of being thankful and content, go to the mall, and plunge ourselves in to debt for gimmicky electronics and piles of clothes.

The moral question is, are we so thankful to God for paying our debts, as in the parable, that we offer thanks all the time through love, or do we say thanks to God and then live a prodigal life of wining, dining, and spending?