What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
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What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
When you are accustomed to living life at an online pace, you live in a world where every action results in an immediate response. Click on the link and, after just a few seconds, up comes the page. Hence when you order a coffee and 10 minutes later it hasn’t arrived, your first response is no longer. “Gosh, they must be quite busy!” No, your auton
... See moreRory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland
...an endless, 24/7, transcendentally corporate, transcendental survey, instantly collecting and collating human habits to move towards what? Very possibly not late capitalism but something like pre-quantum capitalism — pre-infallibly predictive capitalism?
...and the situation couldn’t even be properly categorized as like a “conspiracy” or some sor... See more
...and the situation couldn’t even be properly categorized as like a “conspiracy” or some sor... See more
Unfortunately, advertising has been ingrained into the internet as the basic model for so long and to such an extent that it’s hard to envision online life without the systematic manipulation of attention and all its evils. So we’re bound to wind up here, at the bitter end of “content.” Which is a good excuse to withdraw deeper into books, movies,
... See moreFreddie deBoer • The Bitter End of "Content"
But there’s still one puzzle piece that doesn’t fit. Most people play no part in the production of iPhone cases in their panoply of colors, exotic shampoos containing botanical extracts, or Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccinos. Our addiction to consumption is enabled mostly by robots and Third World wage slaves.
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists
Marketing, a hundred years of incessant marketing, has drilled into us a thirst for what’s new. And new isn’t so stable, is it?
Seth Godin • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Unfortunately, advertising has been ingrained into the internet as the basic model for so long and to such an extent that it’s hard to envision online life without the systematic manipulation of attention and all its evils. So we’re bound to wind up here, at the bitter end of “content.” Which is a good excuse to withdraw deeper into books, movies,
... See more