rec anti-consumerist reads lads and ladies
Live off the Land in the City and Country by Benson
>>7325991
>Live off the Land in the City
Is this a freegan thing or an urban agriculture thing?
adbusters. blew 15 year old me away
No Logo
No One Makes You Shop At Wal-Mart (more anti-monopolist/anti-capitalist)
>>7325960
you want to get told what to consume? for defeating consumerism?
wew lad
>>7326013
it's a survivalist thing
why dont u just stop consuming dumbass instead of buying a book about it
Society of the Spectacle
>>7326094
>just stop living in society guys
>>7325960
The Society of the Spectacle, which is more about late-capitalism mass-society. But consumerism gets criticized as well.
what's wrong with shopping at walmart
>>7326148
Some people are upset that their lives are shit and start blaming everything other than themselves. AKA the origins of a socialist.
>>7326148
It really hurt the sales of small mom and pops like KMart.
>>7326148
>walmart
>you will never be american
>>7326598
Walmart is everywhere, anon. Not just in America
>>7326600
Walmarts abroad are like aircraft carriers. They are a projection of American power and they are so damn America that it might as well be sovereign American land. I say that if you are born in a Walmart abroad you should have dual citizenship. Welcome aboard the evil empire, faggot.
>>7325960
kruger is shit
>>7325960
Anti-Oedipus falls into this i believe
I never really noticed all this consumerism until I stopped watching TV completely. I watched TV a couple days ago and was instantly annoyed how every commercial was just 30 seconds of someone trying to sell you something. I used to sit through commercials mindlessly watching every ad when i was a kid.
>>7326728
Modern ads are more insidious because they act as though they are doing more than trying to sell you things. Older television ads were sincere promotions of products. Now ads are about selling morality and ideology packed into products. They have storylines and recurring characters, they appeal to love, companionship and human empathy. They even appeal to the God-hole in human beings that compel them to a higher calling.
Walmart, Apple, Microsoft, Google and etc are the modern pantheon of Gods. They shape the truth and essence of humanity. To consume is to be a moral human being.
"Laudato Si: On Care For Our Common Home." It's even online in full.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2105201-laudato-si-inglese.html
>>7326659
I want to do a read along of a book like this. Way harder than w/e books make up the new meme trilogy
>Walden by Henry David Thoreau and Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
While not openly attacking consumerism, they portray lifestyles that are contradictory to modern capitalist society.
But if you're looking for something a little more relevant, I recommend Spent by Geoffry Miller. Fantastic 'post-consumerist' look at why we buy things. Really fun read as well.
Good luck.
>>7326643
Walmart actually failed in Germany due to competition.
White Noise, Don Delillo
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
>>7326643
>,faggot.
>>7325960
evasion
>>7326898
slavoj zizek writes about this. I forget the exact passage but he writes about how when purchasing a cup of coffee from starbucks youre not just buying coffee but a certain ethics. this form of consumption nullifies the guilt normally attributed to consuming.
>>7328601
>The Pearl, John Steinbeck
Truly? I have it in my pocket. Might provide a bit of a change of pace from Shakespeare.
>>7326728
they played the same 12 ads back then
the Sears central air commercial and McDonalds
>>7326898
but theyre ads though
everyone is desensitized to them
the only ones people complain about are the ones for ASPCA and christain childs fund
DFW's essay on Television
>>7329645
I think he's talking about ads that try to invoke some sort of feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6bLugtJkQ
>Dog is man's best friend. BUY A CHEVY TODAY
>>7326198
DOGMA
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>>7329645
Complain? No, anon, that is not what I meant. Ads trying to transcend commercialism isn't something that bothers us, its something we expect. We find it offensive when an ad tries to sell a product without trying to appeal to something more than an unnecessary commercial transaction. It's an insult because "they aren't even trying to appease my humanity." When modern car commercials promote love and family, its insulting to see a blue back ground infomercial which goes "come down to the car lot we got SALES SALES SALES" in all its naked consumerism.
>>7329645
He's saying classic ads sell you the solution. Modern ads sell you the problem.
>>7329708
Does that mean consumers like to be lied to? Do they prefer the lie than the startling truth? (kinda like the allegory of the cave)
DH Lawrence had an anti consumerist rant in Lady Chatterley's Lover. Of course the book is about plenty of other things including sex, marriage and class, but the anti consumerism is definitely there as well.
>>7329698
hit me right in the feels then the testicles
>>7329698
>your dog will die in your lifetime
>>7326016
Implying I shop at Wal Mart.
there is literally nothing wrong with being a consumerist as long as you hate yourself.
>>7326016
No one makes you shop at all.
>>7329698
I'm going to be quite honest and say that that ad made me tear up.
But then, I'm not sure if I should be outraged at the fact that the ad essentially channels the feels you felt for that dog into their car product, literally, as the words "A best friend for life's journey" is an attempt to siphon your feel energies into their brand. It's as though no private or intimate feelings are sacred enough that they aren't off the table to sell you a car you don't need.
>>7329698
>buy a dog
Jeesus, it's just a dog. Only stupid people would fall for this pathos.
>>7329698
>Nothing changes at all during the 15 year lifespan of a dog,
>everyone wears the same clothes and drives the same car which always looks like it just rolled off the showroom lot,
>the only thing that changes are the actors representing the same characters at different ages.
Fucking bullshit.
>>7326198
This desu senpai
>>7330357
my dog died 6 months ago...
still heartbroken
>>7330572
this to be honest. made me appreciate dogs more but like chevy less
>>7325960
How is consumerism bad? The human race is now better off than its ever been. And you got consumerism to thank for that. Never before have people had so many choices and so much freedom. When you grow out of your edgy teen marxist phase you'll be happier trust me kiddo.
>>7331833
just because there has been progress where there has also been consumerism it doesn't mean that consumerism is the cause of progress
>>7331833
We are back to the starting point of a cultiure based on pure sense-perception and animal desire.
>>7330357
not if I kill myself first
>>7329753
Conditioning mostly.
Some ads are really amazing though. Try not to tear up lads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBobmn_u98w
>>7331833
This.
>>7331833
>kiddo
Go back to /v/.
>>7331935
we're animals.
>pure sense-perception
please explain
>>7325960
wow how edgy, ripping off the Supreme logo to make a statement about consumerism
gb2adbusters
>>7326728
This. Cutting yourself from a lot of pop culture and then going to back to is a surreal experience.
>>7330357
My dog already died. It's really hard to get over, I'm always ready to run into the house to cuddle her but then realise she isn't there. Her food and water bowls are still sitting in the kitchen.
>>7332148
No transcendence of self, in this case Nature is the absolute and man enjoys it and cherishes it. The only mandatory law is that you should 'enjoy' life, 'be yourself', etc. But as conscious beings we are implicitly cut off from nature, so this ideological instance (pure Utilitarianism), while there is some truth to it, lacks conceptual understanding.
>>7332156
odd future fuccboi detected
>>7326728
i hate ads and viral marketing and all that kind of shit, but i still love consumerism, all apple everything, only shop on mr. porter and revolve, etc. and i love it, when ever human civilization reaches a point where there is surplus production, the most advanced class quickly develops a taste for beauty, there is nothing wrong with this, it is natural, embrace it. if you hate beauty and have a taste for ugly shit, then you may just be horrible plebeian trash. in which case, you should stop frontin' like you appreciate great art and go play some fucking video games or whatever
>>7332215
>he thinks apple is patrish consumerism
top lille
>>7326198
The retard in full regalia. Observe!
>>7332226
buying an ugly ass gaming pc with a neon green dragon dick on the side of the case never has been and never will be patrish, sorry fucko
>>7330482
DEEP
>>7332215
>apple
>beauty
yes yes
>>7332215
>this entire post
>>7332156
>Meta Irony
>>7332252
>apple shit or le alien ware are your only options
It's obvious you don't get any work done, you posturing NEET.
>>7326898
/thread
>>7326898
good post
>>7326198
underrated post
>>7329578
he talks about it in pervert's guide to ideology (iirc in a field of abandoned aircraft, speaking about capitalism) , but knowing zizek he probably wrote the same analogy word for word in 20 other essays and books
>>7330357
>your dad called you earlier this week to tell you that he accidentally killed the seventeen-year-old family dog you'd had since you were six
He didn't deserve that.
>>7333729
he was a beaut.. sorry bud
>>7333754
Thanks, my boy. He was deaf and blind in one eye for several years, so he was definitely on his way out. It was just such a shock hearing that he'd been killed instead of passing away from his age.
>>7326015
are you american/canadian?
>>7333729
those feet are fucking freaky
>>7333729
>accidentally killed
Greentext plz. Thanks in advance.
>>7334648
It's not much of a story.
>Dad is a divorced retired firefighter who lives nearly 300 miles away from his kids, the only family he really ever sees
>He lives a fair bit outside of town as well so, on a day-to-day basis, the only interaction he has is with Knight, our dachshund
>Dad lives up in the mountains where there are mountain lions, large birds, deer, and bears and boars on occasion
>Knight has gone blind in one eye and completely deaf just from old age
>(He used to have seizures and lost the use of both rear legs about eight years ago, but I think he got bored of dragging them around because he just started walking normally again one day)
>Anyway, it's a fairly dangerous place to be for a dog in his condition, so he's basically always somewhere nearby to Dad and comes with him everywhere
>Dad agrees to do some work for an old woman that often has jobs for him on her property, things like cutting up and removing fallen trees or building sheds >For whatever reason, Dad is towing pic-related (he often buys large machinery that he uses for prospecting)
>He gets there, lets Knight out, chats with the woman for a bit
>Ready to get to work, he sees that he needs to pull closer to the house
>He unhitches the trailer without checking to see where Knight is
>Yelp
>Knight was crushed by the end of the trailer
>Dad runs to him, who's lying there whining and wagging his tail
>Knight dies a few minutes later in Dad's lap
His trailer has the axle more towards the middle, unlike the one pictured which has it pretty near to the end. I think it was just back-heavy and the end dropped. Usually he's pretty good with tying things down and checking weight distribution and all that, but it wouldn't be the first time he's made a stupid mistake.
