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hussyknee · 1 year

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#marie kondo #konmari #racism #capitalism #consumer culture #consumerism #usamericans #white people #knee of huss

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sparksinthenight · 1 month

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If the economy NEEDS workers working in degrading, dehumanizing, dangerous jobs where they have very little power, then you need to get a different economy. Any world that relies upon the exploitation and abuse of the workers needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. We can make a society where no one has to work a job that’s physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, emotionally, or environmentally unhealthy or unsafe for them. We need to create that society.

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53v3nfrn5 · 3 months

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Kyoichi Tsuzuki: ‘Happy Victims’ (1999-2004)

Tsuzuki captured portraits of individuals in their bedrooms, surrounded by piles and piles of clothes and accessories. Each of the above fashion victims shot by Kyoichi Tsuzuki has their own individual obsession. From Anna Sui to Vivienne Westwood, the cramped spaces filled with big brands are a testimony to the paradox of consumer culture.

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miamaimania · 8 days

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Unboxing Illusions: Yrjö Edelmann's Hyperrealistic Packaging Paintings

#contemporary #consumer culture #yrjö edelmann #realism #painting #packaging design #illustration

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prole-log · 5 months

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#nickalodeon #cartoon network #freeblr #consumer culture

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frodothefair · 4 months

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I love Pinterest until it starts trying to sell me things based on my pinboards. Then I start to hate it for being so darn good at it.

#pinterest #I can’t get that pearl encrusted sweater out of my head now #consumer culture

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turns-out-its-adhd · 3 months

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Honestly pretty confused about why people want a cup so badly...

#stanley cup #consumerism #consumer culture #tiktok trend #viral marketing #wall e #pixar #sippy cup #it doesn't even look like a good cup #getting closer to the Wall-E future every day

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glucose-god · 2 months

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BOYCOTT EVEN WHEN IT ENDS, TAKE BACK YOUR POWER

#art #glucose god #digital art #free palestine #free congo #activism #tel aviv #palenstine #money #consumerism #consumer culture #fuck israel #fuck complicity #take back your power as a consumer #if money is all that matters to these fuck ass people in the end #end the occupation and liberate palestine #money they won't get #isreal

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k-wame · 5 months

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soo good

#politics #purity culture #consumerism #anti capitalism #cinema #movies #film #consumer culture #activism #censorship #descent into fascism #article #media consumption

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deadgodjess · 6 months

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Isn't it weird that as smart TVs have become more and more ubiquitous that their computing specs being available when going to buy them haven't?

These are essentially tablets with TV bits yet I can't get any concrete info on internal storage or processing power before putting down potentially over $1k for a machine that might get so slow that it's primary function (watching "archived" episodes of Northern Exposure) takes 5 minutes to get to because it's ACTUAL primary function (streaming ads directly into my brain) takes up all it's computing power. My phone, laptop, tablet, etc etc have this info readily available in shop listings, it's something a knowledgeable electronics or phone store rep can tell me about these items. If they can't their respective brand websites will.

My ex's Fire TV, though? My Roku set? Nada. I can find tons of info about their respective appstore catalogues, their picture quality, power supply, refresh rate, hookups, etc etc. But how much space I have for apps and media in my apps and media device? Trololol! Why would anyone need that!? Why would they even DREAM of letting me know if my $100, $600 or even $1,500 TV will be usable after 3 years??

#consumer awareness #planned obsolescence #smart tv #consumer culture #real life writes the post

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nightshadereaper66 · 23 days

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Poem in text form under the cut

Perfect Illusions

Masnavi poem

I see the ace up your sleeve, tucked in torn lace The filth in the room masked by pricey perfume A wilted corsage, still perfectly tilted On a lapel that might as well be a cell. Anaesthetic masking words made synthetic By luxuriant schemes hiding broken dreams Gold-plated jewels and pupils dilated To bosh garble among columns of marble Hiding the grime under facades of sublime.

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infinitysisters · 1 month

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#music #homogeneity #cultural drought #time for reflection #wandering #seeking #personal adventure #courage to be #courage to explore #classic songs #rambling #ramble #personal journey #drifting #walkabout #consumer culture

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miamaimania · 2 months

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Sylvie Fleury's 'Pink Popcorn' - A Neon Ode to Consumerism َ

#sylvie fleury #sculpture #neon #consumer culture #pop art #plastic #2000s #contemporary

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cult-of-artemis-and-athena · 1 year

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get a fucking life

Stop trying to "re-invent" or "re-brand" yourself. A new aesthetic or "era" will not fix your life. Aesthetics-as-lifestyles is something that seems to have proliferated while people were locked in their houses for 2 years. Not necessarily your fault in all cases. I think I understand where it comes from, but I don't think it's healthy or a helpful way to fulfill the desire and longing for things to make sense.

I'm not saying you can't have aspirations, have role models and inspirations, try new things, have a personal style, or change your personal style.

I'm objecting to the idea that if you curate your life a certain way and gaslight yourself into behaving like a different person, it will fix any of a number of problems that present themselves in your life -- take your pick.

"If I wear certain clothes and eat certain things, I will become An Halthy Gorl (TM)"

"If I wear certain clothes and listen to certain music, I will become An Fartistic Gorl (TM)"

Etc.

Pursuing self-improvement - to become more health-conscious or creative - is not the problem. Pursuing these things in a way inauthentic to your Self is the problem.

Online trends are very neat because they are sometimes grassroots. Sometimes there is, but often there isn't a corporation or a brand behind everything with a motivation to sell you some absolute bullshit. It seems since the trend of "aesthetics" has taken off, however, corporations are jumping on the bandwagon and using influencers to astroturf their products to online trends.

Everyone and their dog, at this point, is onto Shein and their crap, but that's a great example I don't need to over-explain.

With the exceptions of what is astroturfed by a corporation, the origin point of a trend that everyone wants to jump on is often ONE person innovating, taking a risk, and being true to themselves. They may do that thing for years in spite of receiving no clout, being considered a weirdo, or getting shit on for what they're doing.

If you look at why punks wore Doc Martens, leather jackets, or military surplus, or clothes with awkward patches and holes, they all go back to practical reasons. Before punks were punks, lot of them were poor and worked in factories; if they were going to have one nice pair of shoes, it was going to be their work boots, and Doc Martens were the best investment for that purpose at the time.

Leather moto jackets were popular in the 1950s and 60s, after that trend passed, a lot of them ended up in thrift stores in the 70s and 80s. If you're a poor kid trying to look cool, you're going to do the best you can with what you can find in a thrift store.

They had holes in their clothes because they were, again, poor and their clothes were naturally worn-out. Perhaps the rebellion lay in the fact that even poor people did their best to be "presentable" and did not wear worn-out clothing in public if they could help it, but it's not like they were buying pre-ripped jeans from a store for $100.

The people who came after, who made a conscious decision to adopt the punk lifestyle, may have ripped up their pants to still piss off anyone who felt worn-out clothes in public was disrespectful.

Then the media makes movies about punks, and punk music starts getting radio play, and normies get exposed to a romanticized and context-free image of punk that they like, and it's still rebellious enough to piss off their parents. However at this time, there are still "real" punks from the original movement, so one foot is still grounded in reality, so to speak.

Then decades pass and punk has become fully commodified into a cartoon character meme. It's a trope that's been remixed, satirized, and deconstructed by Big Fashion. The bottom tip of the iceberg still exists, but the entry point - from where someone gets into Avril Lavigne or MGK at age 11 and they're shopping at Claire's and Hot Topic (I'm probably showing my age...) - is so far removed. And sometimes, people just fuckin stay there unless it was a phase and they move onto something else.

There's a difference between adopting punk almost accidentally because you went to the skate park and interacted with punks, and starting to skateboard because you just discovered The Ramones and you're checking off the punk checklist: "Put safety pins on my bag, check. Wear a dog collar, check. Next, I gotta get a CBGB shirt and dye my hair purple. I gotta get more piercings, because the more piercings I have the higher that my punk level is."

I'll be the first to admit 13-year old me was the latter one. Now, with 20 years of hindsight, my boomer father was 100% correct to make fun of my pre-ripped jeans and tell me I should buy non-ripped jeans and do chores in them to get rips. In my own defense, however, naturally-ripped jeans often rip in a way that makes them unwearable instead of derelique.

This is not a commentary on how to treat posers, but the poser-like thought process of curating a persona that checks off aesthetic boxes without regard for practicality or individuality. However, it's applied toward being a "clean girl" or "French girl" or "alt girl".

On one hand, "aesthetics" are self-aware in acknowledging their superficiality. On the other, that in itself is a red flag that they're about as attainable and sustainable as the artificial environments and scenarios in media that inspires them.

The only outcome of trying to check all the boxes of a "French girl" aesthetic in Peebles, Ohio is disappointment.

I'm not saying you have to embrace minimalism, but in the wardrobe minimalist community, there is the concept of dressing for your real life instead of your aspirational life.

In a way that men don't, women have a mysterious pressure put upon them to be everything and everyone except who they are. "Unattainable standards" gets thrown around a lot, and it's easy to dismiss as "someone who feels entitled to credit from a result without attaining it" but what's actually being lashed out at is not always the standard itself, but sometimes it's likely the moving of the goalposts once that's reached.

I don't know where this started, and going into the possible historical and cultural genesis of this mindset is out of scope, it's largely an internalization. It's the feminine impulse to disregard twenty people who consistently say positive things or don't care and then hyper-fixate on the one person who made an off-color comment once. How many of those people are in your head?

Perhaps it's true that females, on average, are predisposed to negative emotions and conformity. Perhaps it's true that society systemically conditions girls from a young age to be obedient social chameleons who view themselves in third person. Likely both have something to do with it.

I think women who adopt the persona of being a staunch "man repeller" are just as obsessed with their image and potentially Self-denying as the pick me's who would break their feet in half if someone told them it's what attracts High Value Menz. None of this should be about cultivating approval or revulsion in a social audience.

This issue intersects heavily with consumerism, which is why I invoked the example of early punks. We have to get out of the mindset that we can go on Amazon and, within a few hours, order a brand new personality of new clothes and hobby supplies that will be used for a few months then discarded.

"Just be yourself" is advice that's given lazily, and abused frequently as a cope for not improving, but I believe that's close to the solution. Nietzsche said it better, though: become who you are. This could involve discarding and deconstructing forms of identity that come from destructive and schizophrenia-inducing sources such as mass media, social media, and consumerism and affiliating yourself with timeless identities based in culture, craft, spirituality, the natural world, and immutable personal characteristics and talents.

"Show me the face you had before you were born" -- The Buddha

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0dotexe · 6 months

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I've been getting a slew of videos recced to me about "not spending money for 30 days" from people who are so obviously well off and it just gives me the ick. Yes hyper-consumerism is something that people can easily fall into but I'd rather see content about buying food on a budget than a desperately privileged instagram girlies "giving up" money for a month.

These type of videos are giving me massive thrift haul vibes, which is a whole other beast in and of itself. But the idea acting like poor people to make it cute and consumable content just makes me want to barf.

#exe talkz #normal mode #consumerism #poverty #eat the rich #consumer culture #thrifting #haul culture #hyper consumerism #'I have to give up money so I can find myself' - girl you live in a cushy apartment in California and have everything you could ever need #I wish that was me but we can barely afford food for ourselves right now #Some of ya'll never lived off of $50 a month and it shows #If you want a good recc - atomicshrimp on youtube makes videos about meals on super small budgets

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nemfrog · 2 years

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1939 Universal Refrigerator. Add modern living to your home with better furniture. Carson Pirie Scott Catalogue.

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#refrigerators #large appliances #consumer culture #nemfrog #1939 #1930s

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