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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jun 9, 2022 ^^
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Yessss THANK YOU for putting this together!! Our consumer society has always really bothered me, and while watching your documentary, it clicked that one thing I hate most about it is being told what to desire. We're being told what we should like and what is good by all the products, services, and media we consume. I have to make a concentrated effort to put all the noise aside and figure out for myself what I truly want out of life. Our hyper-consumerist society feels very inauthentic to me, and I think it leads to a lot of judgment, conformity, anxiety, and depression. Not to mention, all the ethical and environmental issues too!
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I have been dealing with a lot of existential depression. I started 2022 with it, got covid and ironically felt better, since it temporarily dropped me to the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy, giving me a more tangible struggle. A few months later it has returned. I'm going to start therapy in the near future, as I have finally conceded that the complexity of the world and the meta complexity of my experience of it is too dense for me to fully decipher without some help. I say all this to contextualize how valuable I've found your channel in the last week since I came across it. In a world where so often more emphasis is placed on the delivery mechanism of ideas than the formulation of the ideas themselves, you take care to deeply consider the topic, provide many ideas, perspectives, and pieces of evidence, and present them humbly. It's admirable. Thank you and best wishes!
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we are left with nothing else besides consumerism. Buy your ticket or stay at home, if you have a home. The community pool, the community dance, the community itself is a thing of the past. Society has closed its doors in fear of getting sick or getting sued. People used to know who the mayor of their town was, today many people don't know their next door neighbor.
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Vanity and materialism=the capitalist's wet dream. I have been buying second hand clothes mostly for over twenty years, and avoid buying stuff I know I don't really need. George Carlin did a great bit on consumerism and "stuff", and a scene in Fight Club about consumerism came to mind where Tyler says "The things you own end up owning you..". Thanks for this!
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