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A Society of Discontents

Their purpose is to create a hole within you that never gets filled up.

The latest version of the newest model of the most recent rendition of the smartphone, TV, tablet, computer, or gadget is one that you cannot live without.

That is what they tell you.

The snap crackle pop of the latest pop music crackles with the static of love without commitment, fame without responsibility, an endless party while the world burns, shadow puppets on the stage.

Buy what I am selling, they say.

My house is bigger than yours. My tummy and butt are tighter. My penis is larger. My breasts are perfect. I have the face of a goddess. I am the perfect lover. I do not have ED or PE. My children are prodigies. My car is shiny. My vacations are dreamy. My investments are sound. I am more than financially secure. I am the Joneses times a million.

You can keep up, they say.

How dare anyone threaten this lifestyle? Missiles, drones, ships, jets, weapons of mass destruction, bombs smart and dumb, they can always come up with a reason, something or someone to fear, to launch destruction.

Aren’t you a patriot? They ask.

Fill it up. Take a long swig. Stuff your face, your pockets, your house, your shopping cart and grocery bags, with as much as it, they, you can hold.

Funny how it is never enough.

September 13, 2014

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝘇 -

3-Word Review:

- Inter-linked
- Thematically-rhythmed
- Melancholic

Frictional Posture:

- What disordering "serpent" licks at the edges of the speakers' experiences?

#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #cynthiacruz #poetry #howtheendbegins #postmodernism #consumerculture #media

The Loveliest

The woman 
with a 
double chin 
and fat fingers
around plastic bags 
plops down 
in the seat
across the aisle 
and blocks 
my view of the
goddess 
whose magazine 
is filled with 
clothes
she'd fill out 
quite nicely.

The pretty 
and the ugly 
sit side by side
and I wonder 
who is 
the loveliest 
in God's eyes.

February 22, 2002

ICYMI: 56% of Latinas drop brands over stereotypes, LDC and Kantar find: 86% of Latinas already control household spending and 74% steer peer purchases, according to a June 30 study. Brands slow to adapt risk losing both groups. https://ppc.land/56-of-latinas-drop-brands-over-stereotypes-ldc-and-kantar-find/ #Latinas #BrandLoyalty #ConsumerCulture #DiversityInMarketing #WomenEmpowerment

As some shops toy with removing changing rooms entirely what does it mean for the future of the high street. #retail #fashion #consumerculture

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jun/19/changing-rooms-high-street-shops?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass

This is interesting - saw a post here on Mastodon on this topic a few days ago - couldn't find it again, so started searching the web and found this related article from Psychology Today ...

Hooked Young: How Consumer Culture Recruits Us Early in Life

This isn’t the life we came for. A small, silent voice within can guide us back.

Key points

- For 2 million years, we were raised in villages, wiring us for connection. Now we arrive in homes too quiet.

- Consumer culture arrives early in our youth and promises to deliver the connection we’re missing.

- We get hooked on this promise—that buying and achieving will bring us closeness—but it’s a false promise.

- A voice within still longs for real people, real presence, and a way back to each other. It’s time we listen.

...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/born-for-a-better-world/202509/hooked-young-how-consumer-culture-recruits-us-early-in-life

#consumerculture

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

Absurd Nr.09 - Slow Delivery Service
https://absurd.website/slow-delivery-service/
A delivery service that celebrates delay instead of speed and convenience.
It questions modern efficiency culture by making slowness the product itself.
#art #netart #conceptualart #slowliving #slowness #logistics #consumerculture #digitalart #absurdism #antioptimization #culturalcritique

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Dustbuster. Black & Decker, 1983
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#VintageAdvertising #1980sDesign #BlackAndDecker #Dustbuster #Appliances #Advertisement #IndustrialDesign #HouseholdTechnology #ConsumerCulture #retro #Vintage

Reduce, #Recycle, Reuse! What do you have that could be sold, donated or fixed before you replace?

Clever high school student reveals lucrative side hustle: 'The government really does throw away gold' https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/clever-high-school-student-reveals-063000606.html

#waste #trash #consumerculture #upgrades #moneytips

Sale at Brown Thomas

The January sales in Brown Thomas attract many but the shop is a good place to meet someone as I presume this gentleman was, back in 2016.

#BrownThomas #BrownThomasCork #BrownThomasSale #candidPhotography #ChristmasShopping #consumerCulture #contemporaryIreland #CorkCity #CorkCityCentre #CorkStreetScene #fashionAdvertising #IrishShopping #retailPhotography #socialCommentary #StreetPhotography #urbanPhotography

Reality Meets Advertisement

People walking along a corridor in a shopping mall in Birmingham, England. 2022.

#Advertising #Birmingham #BirminghamCityCentre #BlackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography #candidPhotography #consumerCulture #contemporaryLife #England #mallPhotography #modernRetail #Photo #retailSpace #shoppingCentre #shoppingCulture #StreetPhotography #UnitedKingdom #urbanPhotography

*@flipboard.com = advertising

#Fediverse #Capitalism #CapitalismKills #ConsumerCulture

The #Genocide in #Gaza may be a problem for the news and entertainment industries, even #ConsumerCulture.

To the extent that the slaughter becomes something that #Consumers recognise their own complicity in via their governments, the glamour and success of #Consumption is lessened, tarnished by the knowledge of children being killed when consumption is happening.

#ProSportAndGenocide?

And today western civilzation and the cultures within it look to be #Betrayal.

From #Gaza to #DomesticViolence, from #FreeSpeechAbsolutists & #BodilyAutonomyAbsolutists through to #ConsumerCulture and the #MajorReligions, #Capitalism and #Poverty it's betrayal and more betrayal.

And not surprisingly betrayal is today brutally obvious in interpersonal relationships as well.

Options: Harden up, soften, go it alone, seek out more honesty and responsibility, give up, ... ?

How do you do it?

A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat

#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837638330

Learning is increasingly positioned as a lifelong, lifewide activity, harmonized across formal & informal spaces. It's becoming a lifestyle choice, often commodified, where consuming equals learning. #LifelongLearning #ConsumerCulture

Faces glow with screens,
silent hands reach for more, yet
hearts remain untouched.

@consciousliving
@haiku

#DigitalIsolation #SelfishConsumption #LostConnections #ModernLoneliness #ScreenAddiction #ConsumerCulture #DisconnectedSociety #EmptyHandsFull

@PeterRu #ConsumerCulture does not want to hear this; they rather believe the fairy tale about #GreenEnergy and #AI combined could save the planet. Truth is, they will kill ever more of it.

💰✨ Watch Generation Wealth by #LaureenGreenfield A powerful exploration of our obsession with money and the cost of the American Dream. 📉 It's a must-see for anyone questioning the true value of wealth! #GenerationWealth #Documentary #ConsumerCulture #Wealth #LaurenGreenfield 🎥🌍

⭐https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5268348/

🍅https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/generation_wealth

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfC1AVhfb8

#movierecommendation 🍿

🔍 Commodity fetishism: We create things, but their value seems detached from our labor 🤔 Products shape our reality & desires, not vice versa 🌀 The irony? Non-material entities (commodities) transform social consciousness 🧠💫 Marketing exploits this brilliantly 📈 #MarxistTheory #ConsumerCulture #CommodityFetishism

"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it's hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in a trap of overconsumption, which is as destructive to ourselves as to those we consume."
Robin Wall Kimmerer

#consumerCulture #climatechange #environment

If casual fly tipping is any indication the single biggest "This hideous item has no place in my life now" must be the AV TV stand. Is it fashion or does everyone just nail their TV to the wall now? #TV #FlyTipping #ConsumerCulture #Waste