Consumption
This means that our current capitalist system is set up less to meet and fulfill our current needs than it is to generate new ones, which, of course, can only be met through additional consumption—consumption of new lifestyles, experiences, products, upgrades, and apps with features we suddenly can’t live without.
Astra Taylor • The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Your life is the product of your attention.
You spend eight hours scrolling, you get an empty mind. You spend eight hours creating, you get a meaningful life.
Where your attention goes, your life follows. Stop renting your mind to algorithms.
Reclaim your focus and build something meaningful.
You spend eight hours scrolling, you get an empty mind. You spend eight hours creating, you get a meaningful life.
Where your attention goes, your life follows. Stop renting your mind to algorithms.
Reclaim your focus and build something meaningful.
Stoic Productivity • Stoic Productivity (@stoicproductivity)
Consumption isn’t “bad” it’s a necessary step in the act of producing anything. But consumption without outlet? Consumption without capacity to process and create? Eventually it clogs everything up. The mind, space, time, and the physical body.
The act of consumption itself has become a drug.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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youtu.beAn exploration on the luxury, status and current relevance of being offline.
Consumption , noun, late 14th century: “wasting of the body by disease; wasting disease, progressive emaciation,” from Old French consumpcion , from Latin consumptionem : “a using up, wasting;” noun of state from past-participle stem of consumere: “to use up, eat, waste.”
Emily Daniel • Eating, using up, wasting
Consumption can be a trap we use to avoid taking agency for a problem or specific goal. We know some kind of creation is required but it feels hard so instead we get stuck ina loop on consumption. Collecting more then we need to actually take action like we can tick off he first step indefinitely and still get somewhere.
Hence the irony that consumerism, which we often denounce as “materialism,” is in fact quite happy to reduce things to nothingness. What makes such serial acquisition consumptive is precisely this treatment of things as disposable. While on the one hand this practice invests things with redemptive promise, on the other hand they can never measure
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