Consumerism

• Repair, maintenance, and restoration are about building more intimate, meaningful relationships with the things around us

• Repairs store and tell stories. They are the equivalent of scars on objects.

• Repaired objects help us redefine beauty.

• Repair replaces wastefulness and shallowness with meaning and care.

• Repairing makes us truly empowered and responsible owners of our objects as opposed to mere consumers.

Supreme traced a social and cultural topography of its brand’s global community, but that community formed exactly because you could only buy Supreme at its Lafayette Street shop in New York. Through its merch, Supreme held this community together across time and geography. It connected people, conversations, and symbols into one Supreme social network.

Runaway consumerism explains the Fermi Paradox

• Fresh organic fruit juice costs so much more than nutrition-free soda. Having real friends is so much more effort than watching Friends on TV. Actually colonizing the galaxy would be so much harder than pretending to have done it when filming Star Wars or Serenity.

• Most bright alien species probably go extinct gradually, allocating more time and resources to their pleasures, and less to their children.

Instead actively and continually design the system to prevent Stuff from accumulating and to make it easier to regularly prune Stuff.

We do have a problem of stuff. which is why we’re building objet.cc

Change and growth cannot be bought, only earned through the difficult business of removing all of the dross and faulty thinking (that’s been imposed on us) and getting to the core of things:

Love, service, creativity, community, relationships, family.

We believe disposable stuff will just be a glitch in the long arc of consumerism. We're powering the new wave. We are “LE NEW CONSUMER”.