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Cultural distress (and consumerism)
In a recent newsletter, “The Shopping Cure,” Anne Helen Petersen explored the compulsion to buy and accumulate stuff that’s been fostered by technologies of frictionless consumption. Every conceivable activity or hobby one sets out to enjoy becomes an occasion to buy stuff: “They transform from sites of actual pleasure and diversion to means of
... See moretheconvivialsociety.substack.com • Ill With Want
I used to blame advertisers for that restlessness and dissatisfaction, but I don’t think that’s right. We were already restless; we always have been. The advertisers just figured out how to nurture, tend, exacerbate, and capitalize on the pre-existing condition, that innate restlessness, promising that something new is going to set all to rights.
... See moreKurt Armstrong • Repair and Remain
The best consumer products are prophylactics to negative demographic trends. The founder of Trader Joe’s called it a cult of the overeducated and underpaid. Lululemon was made after the founder observed more and more 32-year-old women who lived alone in their condos and spent all their time traveling for work. They are designed to massage and... See more
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