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Constraints incentivize care.
With productivity tools, there’s always a trade-off. In this case, as we delegate more of our memory-making behaviors to technology, we risk weakening our sense of perception & judgment.
weekly Go Flip Yourself and weekly Objet library
I like to think of them [old things] as talismans of the past. I don’t just put them on display but use them as they were made to be used.
There’s also a sense that whatever it witnessed through my ownership is just a minor chapter in the bag’s life. It holds my secrets but also the mysteries of those that came before me. I can only hope to pass it on as the common thread between me and generations of stylish women.
Instead of pointing out, “What tech is doing to us...” what if we asked, “What are we doing to ourselves?”
weekly Go Flip Yourself and Really Good Interviewers
- greatest storyteller of all time?
- 6 magic words: let me tell you a story
Renewable Energy and
Paradise Lost?—Existential anxiety and the iron cage of consumerism | Blog by Tim Jackson
TIM JACKSONcusp.ac.uk
weekly Objet library and Consumerism
The iron cage of consumerism:
the profit motive stimulates a continual search for newer, better or cheaper products and services
our own relentless search for social status lock us into an escalating spiral of consumerism
The language of cool is conveyed through a vocabulary of the new.
Confidence in our place in the social world hangs or falls on our ability to participate in consumerism.
We created these conditions [above ☝️].
The restless desire of the consumer is the perfect complement for the restless innovation of the entrepreneur. […] The ‘iron cage of consumerism’ is a system in which no one is free.
I want to argue of course that modern society has internalised a number of specific functions of world maintenance within the dynamics and organisation of consumerism.
The language of stuff:
This is one of the key lessons from the sociology of consumption. It is now broadly accepted that material things are deeply implicated in the social and psychological fabric of our lives. This role depends heavily on the human tendency to imbue material artefacts with symbolic meaning.
Mary Douglas (1976, 207):
“[a]n individual’s main objective in consumption is to help create the social world and to find a credible place in it.”
If consumption plays such a vital role in the construction and maintenance of our social world, then asking people to give up material commodities is asking them to risk a kind of social suicide. People will rightly resist threats to identity. They will resist threats to meaning.
